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Implement an LRU Cache
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Implement an LRU Cache

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Problem

Implement an LRU Cache.

Asked in the Final Round, Round 3, Hiring Manager stage. The task was asked in the last 20 minutes of the final interview round.

Implement lru_cache(capacity, operations). capacity is a positive integer. Each operation is ['put', key, value] or ['get', key]. Return an array containing the result of every get: the stored value, or -1 if the key is absent. A put updates an existing key and marks it as most recently used. When the cache exceeds capacity, evict the least recently used key.

Constraints

  • 1 <= capacity <= 10^5
  • 1 <= operations.length <= 10^5
  • Each key and value is an integer
  • Keys are unique within the cache at any moment
  • Each operation is either ['get', key] or ['put', key, value]

Function Signature

def lru_cache(capacity, operations):
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