Cache::Ref::LIFO(3pm)

💖 Cache::Ref::LIFO 💖

okay bestie, this is Cache::Ref::LIFO from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it is exactly what it says on the tin — a cache that saves stuff until it's full, then just... stops. no cap. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

Cache::Ref::LIFO — Saves entries until full, discarding subsequent sets.

like literally that's the whole personality. she's simple. she's honest. she's full and she's DONE accepting new entries 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

my $c = Cache::Ref::LIFO->new( size => $n );

$c->set( foo => 42 );

$c->get("foo");

that's it. that's the whole API. build her with a size, set a thing, get a thing. iconic behavior, honestly 🌸

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so here's the tea ☕ — this is a very naive cache algorithm. it saves cache sets until the cache is full, at which point all additional saves which aren't a value update are discarded immediately. like, dropped. on the floor. gone. 🙈

for very predictable workflows this is potentially a good fit — provided the MFU is used early on. (iykyk — if your most-frequently-used stuff shows up first, you're eating good 🍓)

the advantage is that the code is very simple as a result. and honestly? simple is a vibe. main character energy is knowing when NOT to overcomplicate things 💜

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Yuval Kogman

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💖 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 💖

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Yuval Kogman.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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and that's a wrap, bestie 🫶 this was documented for perl v5.32.0, dated 2021-01-07, and it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the universe. mwah. slay. periodt. ✨💅