LinkedIn Interview Question

Design LRU Cache

Interview Answers

Anonymous

Apr 2, 2013

Use a priority queue. It can be reordered in terms of time accessed.

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Anonymous

Jun 7, 2011

I tried to come out with a complicated solution, but they wanted the simplest one. A Hashmap and doubly linked list should satisfy them. Keep putting the recently accessed node on top of the queue and while inserting a new element, if its full, remove the last node in the queue.

Anonymous

Feb 23, 2012

why not use a minHeap?