LRU cache (and other things missing from the standard library ...)

[Paul Moore]

Gerhard Haering <gh at ghaering.de> writes:

> I recently implemented a LRU cache. And I wondered why such a useful class is
> not already in the standard library. The only thing I found was a cookbook
> entry but the comments said it was problematic.

[...]

> I've already started translating it into C (*) , which speeds it up by between
> factor 5 to 8. Maybe a candidate for the standard library once it's finished?

Would this be a suitable addition for the collections module (which
currently only has deque in it)?

I'm not sure if a LRU cache counts as a "collection" in that sense. I
looked at the code briefly, but don't really follow it yet...

Paul.
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