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Design an Expiring LRU Cache
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Design an Expiring LRU Cache

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Problem

Implement a cache that supports get(key) and put(key, value, ttl) in O(1) average time. The cache has a fixed capacity. When the capacity is full, evict the least recently used unexpired entry first. Each entry also expires ttl seconds after insertion; expired entries must not be returned and should be removed lazily during normal operations.

Return -1 from get(key) if the key is missing or expired. Assume a monotonic integer current_time is provided to each operation in non-decreasing order.

Constraints

  • 1 <= capacity <= 10^5
  • 1 <= number of operations <= 10^5
  • 1 <= key <= 10^9
  • -10^9 <= value <= 10^9
  • 1 <= ttl <= 10^9
  • current_time is non-decreasing across operations
  • get and put must run in average O(1) time

Function Signature

def process_cache_operations(capacity, operations):
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