Is it there any LRU implementation of IDictionary?

Found you answer while googling, also found this:

http://code.google.com/p/csharp-lru-cache/

csharp-lru-cache: LRU cache collection class library

This is a collection class that functions as a least-recently-used cache. It implements ICollection<T>, but also exposes three other members:

• Capacity, the maximum number of items the cache can contain. Once the collection is at capacity, adding a new item to the cache will cause the least recently used item to be discarded. If the Capacity is set to 0 at construction, the cache will not automatically discard items.
• Oldest, the oldest (i.e. least recently used) item in the collection.
• DiscardingOldestItem, an event raised when the cache is about to discard its oldest item. This is an extremely simple implementation. While its Add and Remove methods are thread-safe, it shouldn't be used in heavy multithreading environments because the entire collection is locked during those methods.

There is nothing in the base class libraries that does this.

On the free side, maybe something like C5's HashedLinkedList would work.

If you're willing to pay, maybe check out this C# toolkit. It contains an implementation.

This a very simple and fast implementation we developed for a web site we own.

We tried to improve the code as much as possible, while keeping it thread safe. I think the code is very simple and clear, but if you need some explanation or a guide related to how to use it, don't hesitate to ask.

namespace LRUCache
{
    public class LRUCache<K,V>
    {
        private int capacity;
        private Dictionary<K, LinkedListNode<LRUCacheItem<K, V>>> cacheMap = new Dictionary<K, LinkedListNode<LRUCacheItem<K, V>>>();
        private LinkedList<LRUCacheItem<K, V>> lruList = new LinkedList<LRUCacheItem<K, V>>();

        public LRUCache(int capacity)
        {
            this.capacity = capacity;
        }

        [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.Synchronized)]
        public V get(K key)
        {
            LinkedListNode<LRUCacheItem<K, V>> node;
            if (cacheMap.TryGetValue(key, out node))
            {
                V value = node.Value.value;
                lruList.Remove(node);
                lruList.AddLast(node);
                return value;
            }
            return default(V);
        }

        [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.Synchronized)]
        public void add(K key, V val)
        {
            if (cacheMap.TryGetValue(key, out var existingNode))
            {
                lruList.Remove(existingNode);
            }
            else if (cacheMap.Count >= capacity)
            {
                RemoveFirst();
            }

            LRUCacheItem<K, V> cacheItem = new LRUCacheItem<K, V>(key, val);
            LinkedListNode<LRUCacheItem<K, V>> node = new LinkedListNode<LRUCacheItem<K, V>>(cacheItem);
            lruList.AddLast(node);
            // cacheMap.Add(key, node); - here's bug if try to add already existing value
            cacheMap[key] = node;
        }

        private void RemoveFirst()
        {
            // Remove from LRUPriority
            LinkedListNode<LRUCacheItem<K,V>> node = lruList.First;
            lruList.RemoveFirst();

            // Remove from cache
            cacheMap.Remove(node.Value.key);
        }
    }

    class LRUCacheItem<K,V>
    {
        public LRUCacheItem(K k, V v)
        {
            key = k;
            value = v;
        }
        public K key;
        public V value;
    }
}

I've recently released a class called LurchTable to address the need for a C# variant of the LinkedHashMap. A brief discussion of the LurchTable can be found here.

Basic features:

• Linked Concurrent Dictionary by Insertion, Modification, or Access
• Dictionary/ConcurrentDictionary interface support
• Peek/TryDequeue/Dequeue access to 'oldest' entry
• Allows hard-limit on items enforced at insertion
• Exposes events for add, update, and remove

Source Code: http://csharptest.net/browse/src/Library/Collections/LurchTable.cs

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