LeetCode 146, Medium. Topics: Hash Table, Linked List, Design, Doubly-Linked List. View on LeetCode.
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Problem
Design a data structure that follows the constraints of a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache.
Implement the LRUCache class:
LRUCache(int capacity) Initialize the LRU cache with positive size capacity
int get(int key) Return the value of the key if the key exists, otherwise return -1
void put(int key, int value) Update the value of the key if the key exists. Otherwise, add the key-value pair to the cache. If the number of keys exceeds the capacity from this operation, evict the least recently used key
The functions get and put must each run in O(1) average time complexity.
Examples
Constraints
- 1 <= capacity <= 3000
- 0 <= key <= 10^4
- 0 <= value <= 10^5
- At most 2 * 10^5 calls will be made to get and put
Solution
Reference implementation from solution.py on GitHub, full suite in test_solution.py:
Complexity
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