Tag: lru

So we created a concurrency-safe LRU in the last post, but it was too slow when used concurrently because of all the locking. Reducing the amount of time spent waiting on locks is actually not trivial, but not undoable. You can use things like the sync/atomic package to cleverly change pointers back and forth with…

In my job, I often catch myself having to implement a way to keep data in memory so I can use them at a later time. Sometimes this is for caching purposes, sometimes it’s to keep track of what I’ve sent some other service earlier so I can create a diff or something. Reasons are…