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Google Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers


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link list and hash. combine them together.
but people do not use this in practice...
they use LRU approximation.

- Anonymous April 17, 2011 | Flag Reply
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How about using splay trees. When we have to insert a new item and cache is full, the node with the largest depth in the tree can be replaced with the newer item.

- chiragjain1989 April 18, 2011 | Flag Reply
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I think that will be work for a LFU, not for a LRU.

- click007 May 01, 2011 | Flag
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A queue + HashMap containing address of each node of queue and it's left sibling.

- jackass October 27, 2011 | Flag Reply
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Why not use heap. Root will have LRU item. If item is accessed increase its key (key could be timestamp when item was accessed)

- AlertCoder February 21, 2013 | Flag Reply
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LinkedHashMap

- mytestaccount2 August 19, 2013 | Flag Reply


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