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Thread-Safe O(1) LRU Cache
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Thread-Safe O(1) LRU Cache

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Problem

Implement a thread-safe LRU cache with O(1) performance.

Implement lru_cache_operations(capacity, operations), where operations contains ['put', key, value] or ['get', key]. Return the results of all get operations in order, using -1 for missing keys. Every cache operation must be synchronized, and a successful get or put must mark the key as most recently used. The cache must evict the least recently used key when its capacity is exceeded.

Constraints

  • 1 <= capacity <= 10^5
  • 1 <= len(operations) <= 10^5
  • Each operation is either ['get', key] or ['put', key, value]
  • Keys and values are integers
  • All cache operations must be safe when called concurrently

Function Signature

def lru_cache_operations(capacity, operations):
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