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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2010-11-30 07:13:04 (GMT)
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A `LRU (least recently used) cache
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_algorithms#Least_Recently_Used>`_
- is indicated when the pattern of calls changes over time, such as
- when more recent calls are the best predictors of upcoming calls
+ works best when more recent calls are the best predictors of upcoming calls
(for example, the most popular articles on a news server tend to
- change every day).
+ change each day). The cache's size limit assurs that caching does not
+ grow without bound on long-running processes such as web servers.
.. versionadded:: 3.2