A fast little LRU cache.
To start using tinylru
, install Go and run go get:
$ go get -u github.com/tidwall/tinylru
This will retrieve the library.
Note: this package also has a non-generic tinylru.LRU
implementation.
// Create an LRU cache
var cache tinylru.LRUG[string, string]
// Set the cache size. This is the maximum number of items that the cache can
// hold before evicting old items. The default size is 256.
cache.Resize(1024)
// Set a key. Returns the previous value and ok if a previous value exists.
prev, ok := cache.Set("hello", "world")
// Get a key. Returns the value and ok if the value exists.
value, ok := cache.Get("hello")
// Delete a key. Returns the deleted value and ok if a previous value exists.
prev, ok := cache.Delete("hello")
A Set
function may evict old items when adding a new item while LRU is at
capacity. If you want to know what was evicted then use the SetEvicted
function.
// Set a key and return the evicted item, if any.
prev, ok, evictedKey, evictedValue, evicted := cache.SetEvicted("hello", "jello")
Josh Baker @tidwall
tinylru
source code is available under the MIT License.