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LRU Caching Trade-offs

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What are the trade-offs between different caching strategies like LRU, LFU, and ARC in practice?

Compare how LRU, LFU, and ARC make eviction decisions, including their behavior under temporal locality, frequency-based access, workload changes, and sequential scans. Discuss implementation overhead, memory cost, operational complexity, and how you would choose a strategy for a production cache.

Keep the answer focused on general-purpose in-memory caching and practical workload characteristics.