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a high-performance and gc-friendly LRU cache

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Overview

This package provides LRU and TTL cache implementations for Go services that need predictable cache behavior on hot paths. Cache operations stay simple and synchronous: hits update recency immediately, sets are visible immediately, and the API does not hide background admission queues or delayed write paths.

The implementation is shaped around Go's runtime costs. Fixed-size shards, array-backed lists, compact hash tables, low pointer density, and no per-entry allocation keep classic LRU semantics while reducing heap pressure, pointer chasing, and GC scan work. The tests keep statement coverage at 100% and assert observable cache behavior across eviction, replacement, loading, TTL expiry, and byte-key paths.

BytesCache covers byte-oriented paths where keys and values are already available as []byte. It avoids string conversion, keeps the byte path zero-copy, and assumes cached slices are treated as immutable.

Features

  • Simple
    • No Dependencies.
    • Straightforward API.
  • Fast
    • Outperforms well-known LRU caches.
    • Zero memory allocations.
  • GC friendly
    • Pointerless and continuous data structs.
    • Minimized GC scan times.
  • Memory efficient
    • Adds only 26 extra bytes per entry.
    • Minimized memory usage.
  • Feature optional
    • Using SlidingCache via WithSliding(true) option.
    • Create LoadingCache via WithLoader(func(context.Context, K) (V, time.Duration, error)) option.

Limitations

  1. The TTL is accurate to the nearest second.
  2. Expired items are only removed when accessed again or the cache is full.

Getting Started

package main

import (
	"time"

	"github.com/phuslu/lru"
)

func main() {
	cache := lru.NewTTLCache[string, int](8192)

	cache.Set("a", 1, 2*time.Second)
	println(cache.Get("a"))
	println(cache.Get("b"))

	time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
	println(cache.Get("a"))

	time.Sleep(2 * time.Second)
	println(cache.Get("a"))

	stats := cache.Stats()
	println("SetCalls", stats.SetCalls, "GetCalls", stats.GetCalls, "Misses", stats.Misses)
}

Throughput benchmarks

Disclaimer: This have been testing on github actions environments and the results may be very different from yours. see #14

A Performance result as below. Check github benchmark action for more results and details.

go1.24 benchmark on keysize=16, itemsize=1000000, cachesize=50%, concurrency=8
// env writeratio=0.05 go test -v -cpu=8 -run=none -bench=. -benchtime=5s -benchmem bench_test.go
package bench

import (
	"crypto/sha1"
	"fmt"
	"math/rand/v2"
	"math/bits"
	"os"
	"runtime"
	"strconv"
	"testing"
	"time"
	_ "unsafe"

	theine "github.com/Yiling-J/theine-go"
	"github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2"
	cloudflare "github.com/cloudflare/golibs/lrucache"
	ristretto "github.com/dgraph-io/ristretto/v2"
	freelru "github.com/elastic/go-freelru"
	hashicorp "github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v2/expirable"
	ccache "github.com/karlseguin/ccache/v3"
	lxzan "github.com/lxzan/memorycache"
	otter "github.com/maypok86/otter/v2"
	ecache "github.com/orca-zhang/ecache"
	phuslu "github.com/phuslu/lru"
)

const (
	keysize   = 16
	cachesize = 1000000
)

var writeratio, _ = strconv.ParseFloat(os.Getenv("writeratio"), 64)

type CheapRand struct {
	Seed uint64
}

func (rand *CheapRand) Uint32() uint32 {
	rand.Seed += 0xa0761d6478bd642f
	hi, lo := bits.Mul64(rand.Seed, rand.Seed^0xe7037ed1a0b428db)
	return uint32(hi ^ lo)
}

func (rand *CheapRand) Uint32n(n uint32) uint32 {
	return uint32((uint64(rand.Uint32()) * uint64(n)) >> 32)
}

func (rand *CheapRand) Uint64() uint64 {
	return uint64(rand.Uint32())<<32 ^ uint64(rand.Uint32())
}

var shardcount = func() int {
	n := runtime.GOMAXPROCS(0) * 16
	k := 1
	for k < n {
		k = k * 2
	}
	return k
}()

var keys = func() (x []string) {
	x = make([]string, cachesize)
	for i := range cachesize {
		x[i] = fmt.Sprintf("%x", sha1.Sum([]byte(fmt.Sprint(i))))[:keysize]
	}
	return
}()

func BenchmarkHashicorpSetGet(b *testing.B) {
	cache := hashicorp.NewLRU[string, int](cachesize, nil, time.Hour)
	for i := range cachesize/2 {
		cache.Add(keys[i], i)
	}

	b.ResetTimer()
	b.RunParallel(func(pb *testing.PB) {
		threshold := uint32(float64(^uint32(0)) * writeratio)
		cheaprand := &CheapRand{uint64(time.Now().UnixNano())}
		zipf := rand.NewZipf(rand.New(cheaprand), 1.0001, 10, cachesize-1)
		for pb.Next() {
			if threshold > 0 && cheaprand.Uint32() <= threshold {
				i := int(cheaprand.Uint32n(cachesize))
				cache.Add(keys[i], i)
			} else {
				cache.Get(keys[zipf.Uint64()])
			}
		}
	})
}

func BenchmarkCloudflareSetGet(b *testing.B) {
	cache := cloudflare.NewMultiLRUCache(uint(shardcount), uint(cachesize/shardcount))
	for i := range cachesize/2 {
		cache.Set(keys[i], i, time.Now().Add(time.Hour))
	}
	expires := time.Now().Add(time.Hour)

	b.ResetTimer()
	b.RunParallel(func(pb *testing.PB) {
		threshold := uint32(float64(^uint32(0)) * writeratio)
		cheaprand := &CheapRand{uint64(time.Now().UnixNano())}
		zipf := rand.NewZipf(rand.New(cheaprand), 1.0001, 10, cachesize-1)
		for pb.Next() {
			if threshold > 0 && cheaprand.Uint32() <= threshold {
				i := int(cheaprand.Uint32n(cachesize))
				cache.Set(keys[i], i, expires)
			} else {
				cache.Get(keys[zipf.Uint64()])
			}
		}
	})
}

func BenchmarkEcacheSetGet(b *testing.B) {
	cache := ecache.NewLRUCache(uint16(shardcount), uint16(cachesize/shardcount), time.Hour)
	for i := range cachesize/2 {
		cache.Put(keys[i], i)
	}

	b.ResetTimer()
	b.RunParallel(func(pb *testing.PB) {
		threshold := uint32(float64(^uint32(0)) * writeratio)
		cheaprand := &CheapRand{uint64(time.Now().UnixNano())}
		zipf := rand.NewZipf(rand.New(cheaprand), 1.0001, 10, cachesize-1)
		for pb.Next() {
			if threshold > 0 && cheaprand.Uint32() <= threshold {
				i := int(cheaprand.Uint32n(cachesize))
				cache.Put(keys[i], i)
			} else {
				cache.Get(keys[zipf.Uint64()])
			}
		}
	})
}

func BenchmarkLxzanSetGet(b *testing.B) {
	cache := lxzan.New[string, int](
		lxzan.WithBucketNum(shardcount),
		lxzan.WithBucketSize(cachesize/shardcount, cachesize/shardcount),
		lxzan.WithInterval(time.Hour, time.Hour),
	)
	for i := range cachesize/2 {
		cache.Set(keys[i], i, time.Hour)
	}

	b.ResetTimer()
	b.RunParallel(func(pb *testing.PB) {
		threshold := uint32(float64(^uint32(0)) * writeratio)
		cheaprand := &CheapRand{uint64(time.Now().UnixNano())}
		zipf := rand.NewZipf(rand.New(cheaprand), 1.0001, 10, cachesize-1)
		for pb.Next() {
			if threshold > 0 && cheaprand.Uint32() <= threshold {
				i := int(cheaprand.Uint32n(cachesize))
				cache.Set(keys[i], i, time.Hour)
			} else {
				cache.Get(keys[zipf.Uint64()])
			}
		}
	})
}

func hashStringXXHASH(s string) uint32 {
	return uint32(xxhash.Sum64String(s))
}

func BenchmarkFreelruSetGet(b *testing.B) {
	cache, _ := freelru.NewSharded[string, int](cachesize, hashStringXXHASH)
	for i := range cachesize/2 {
		cache.AddWithLifetime(keys[i], i, time.Hour)
	}

	b.ResetTimer()
	b.RunParallel(func(pb *testing.PB) {
		threshold := uint32(float64(^uint32(0)) * writeratio)
		cheaprand := &CheapRand{uint64(time.Now().UnixNano())}
		zipf := rand.NewZipf(rand.New(cheaprand), 1.0001, 10, cachesize-1)
		for pb.Next() {
			if threshold > 0 && cheaprand.Uint32() <= threshold {
				i := int(cheaprand.Uint32n(cachesize))
				cache.AddWithLifetime(keys[i], i, time.Hour)
			} else {
				cache.Get(keys[zipf.Uint64()])
			}
		}
	})
}

func BenchmarkPhusluSetGet(b *testing.B) {
	cache := phuslu.NewTTLCache[string, int](cachesize, phuslu.WithShards[string, int](uint32(shardcount)))
	for i := range cachesize/2 {
		cache.Set(keys[i], i, time.Hour)
	}

	b.ResetTimer()
	b.RunParallel(func(pb *testing.PB) {
		threshold := uint32(float64(^uint32(0)) * writeratio)
		cheaprand := &CheapRand{uint64(time.Now().UnixNano())}
		zipf := rand.NewZipf(rand.New(cheaprand), 1.0001, 10, cachesize-1)
		for pb.Next() {
			if threshold > 0 && cheaprand.Uint32() <= threshold {
				i := int(cheaprand.Uint32n(cachesize))
				cache.Set(keys[i], i, time.Hour)
			} else {
				cache.Get(keys[zipf.Uint64()])
			}
		}
	})
}

func BenchmarkNoTTLSetGet(b *testing.B) {
	cache := phuslu.NewLRUCache[string, int](cachesize, phuslu.WithShards[string, int](uint32(shardcount)))
	for i := range cachesize/2 {
		cache.Set(keys[i], i)
	}

	b.ResetTimer()
	b.RunParallel(func(pb *testing.PB) {
		threshold := uint32(float64(^uint32(0)) * writeratio)
		cheaprand := &CheapRand{uint64(time.Now().UnixNano())}
		zipf := rand.NewZipf(rand.New(cheaprand), 1.0001, 10, cachesize-1)
		for pb.Next() {
			if threshold > 0 && cheaprand.Uint32() <= threshold {
				i := int(cheaprand.Uint32n(cachesize))
				cache.Set(keys[i], i)
			} else {
				cache.Get(keys[zipf.Uint64()])
			}
		}
	})
}

func BenchmarkCcacheSetGet(b *testing.B) {
	cache := ccache.New(ccache.Configure[int]().MaxSize(cachesize).PercentToPrune(2))
	for i := range cachesize/2 {
		cache.Set(keys[i], i, time.Hour)
	}

	b.ResetTimer()
	b.RunParallel(func(pb *testing.PB) {
		threshold := uint32(float64(^uint32(0)) * writeratio)
		cheaprand := &CheapRand{uint64(time.Now().UnixNano())}
		zipf := rand.NewZipf(rand.New(cheaprand), 1.0001, 10, cachesize-1)
		for pb.Next() {
			if threshold > 0 && cheaprand.Uint32() <= threshold {
				i := int(cheaprand.Uint32n(cachesize))
				cache.Set(keys[i], i, time.Hour)
			} else {
				cache.Get(keys[zipf.Uint64()])
			}
		}
	})
}

func BenchmarkRistrettoSetGet(b *testing.B) {
	cache, _ := ristretto.NewCache(&ristretto.Config[string, int]{
		NumCounters: 10 * cachesize, // number of keys to track frequency of (10M).
		MaxCost:     cachesize,      // maximum cost of cache (1M).
		BufferItems: 64,             // number of keys per Get buffer.
	})
	for i := range cachesize/2 {
		cache.SetWithTTL(keys[i], i, 1, time.Hour)
	}

	b.ResetTimer()
	b.RunParallel(func(pb *testing.PB) {
		threshold := uint32(float64(^uint32(0)) * writeratio)
		cheaprand := &CheapRand{uint64(time.Now().UnixNano())}
		zipf := rand.NewZipf(rand.New(cheaprand), 1.0001, 10, cachesize-1)
		for pb.Next() {
			if threshold > 0 && cheaprand.Uint32() <= threshold {
				i := int(cheaprand.Uint32n(cachesize))
				cache.SetWithTTL(keys[i], i, 1, time.Hour)
			} else {
				cache.Get(keys[zipf.Uint64()])
			}
		}
	})
}

func BenchmarkTheineSetGet(b *testing.B) {
	cache, _ := theine.NewBuilder[string, int](cachesize).Build()
	for i := range cachesize/2 {
		cache.SetWithTTL(keys[i], i, 1, time.Hour)
	}

	b.ResetTimer()
	b.RunParallel(func(pb *testing.PB) {
		threshold := uint32(float64(^uint32(0)) * writeratio)
		cheaprand := &CheapRand{uint64(time.Now().UnixNano())}
		zipf := rand.NewZipf(rand.New(cheaprand), 1.0001, 10, cachesize-1)
		for pb.Next() {
			if threshold > 0 && cheaprand.Uint32() <= threshold {
				i := int(cheaprand.Uint32n(cachesize))
				cache.SetWithTTL(keys[i], i, 1, time.Hour)
			} else {
				cache.Get(keys[zipf.Uint64()])
			}
		}
	})
}

func BenchmarkOtterSetGet(b *testing.B) {
	cache := otter.Must[string, int](&otter.Options[string, int]{MaximumSize: cachesize, InitialCapacity: cachesize})
	for i := range cachesize/2 {
		cache.Set(keys[i], i)
		cache.SetExpiresAfter(keys[i], time.Hour)
	}

	b.ResetTimer()
	b.RunParallel(func(pb *testing.PB) {
		threshold := uint32(float64(^uint32(0)) * writeratio)
		cheaprand := &CheapRand{uint64(time.Now().UnixNano())}
		zipf := rand.NewZipf(rand.New(cheaprand), 1.0001, 10, cachesize-1)
		for pb.Next() {
			if threshold > 0 && cheaprand.Uint32() <= threshold {
				i := int(cheaprand.Uint32n(cachesize))
				cache.Set(keys[i], i)
				// cache.SetExpiresAfter(keys[i], time.Hour)
			} else {
				cache.GetEntry(keys[zipf.Uint64()])
			}
		}
	})
}

Run with 95% zipf reads and 5% randomly writes.

In github actions:

goos: linux
goarch: amd64
cpu: AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor                
BenchmarkHashicorpSetGet
BenchmarkHashicorpSetGet-8    	15022102	       399.6 ns/op	       1 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkCloudflareSetGet
BenchmarkCloudflareSetGet-8   	43891576	       145.0 ns/op	      16 B/op	       1 allocs/op
BenchmarkEcacheSetGet
BenchmarkEcacheSetGet-8       	53177583	       114.3 ns/op	       1 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkLxzanSetGet
BenchmarkLxzanSetGet-8        	59991416	       105.7 ns/op	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkFreelruSetGet
BenchmarkFreelruSetGet-8      	55525759	       124.6 ns/op	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkPhusluSetGet
BenchmarkPhusluSetGet-8       	80203066	        83.24 ns/op	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkNoTTLSetGet
BenchmarkNoTTLSetGet-8        	84470088	        81.51 ns/op	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkCcacheSetGet
BenchmarkCcacheSetGet-8       	16120828	       370.7 ns/op	      25 B/op	       2 allocs/op
BenchmarkRistrettoSetGet
BenchmarkRistrettoSetGet-8    	58069192	       115.2 ns/op	       9 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkTheineSetGet
BenchmarkTheineSetGet-8       	39333403	       155.0 ns/op	       2 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkOtterSetGet
BenchmarkOtterSetGet-8        	58071740	       111.1 ns/op	       2 B/op	       0 allocs/op
PASS
ok  	command-line-arguments	94.635s

Run with 50% zipf reads and 50% randomly writes.

In github actions:

goos: linux
goarch: amd64
cpu: AMD EPYC 7763 64-Core Processor                
BenchmarkHashicorpSetGet
BenchmarkHashicorpSetGet-8    	 9766875	       691.8 ns/op	      15 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkCloudflareSetGet
BenchmarkCloudflareSetGet-8   	28135075	       255.4 ns/op	      19 B/op	       1 allocs/op
BenchmarkEcacheSetGet
BenchmarkEcacheSetGet-8       	43233015	       145.2 ns/op	      12 B/op	       1 allocs/op
BenchmarkLxzanSetGet
BenchmarkLxzanSetGet-8        	45143678	       150.7 ns/op	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkFreelruSetGet
BenchmarkFreelruSetGet-8      	46349542	       149.8 ns/op	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkPhusluSetGet
BenchmarkPhusluSetGet-8       	62404420	       111.3 ns/op	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkNoTTLSetGet
BenchmarkNoTTLSetGet-8        	68506962	       104.7 ns/op	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkCcacheSetGet
BenchmarkCcacheSetGet-8       	10825527	       595.6 ns/op	      78 B/op	       3 allocs/op
BenchmarkRistrettoSetGet
BenchmarkRistrettoSetGet-8    	41379124	       167.7 ns/op	      46 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkTheineSetGet
BenchmarkTheineSetGet-8       	16988258	       361.2 ns/op	       6 B/op	       0 allocs/op
BenchmarkOtterSetGet
BenchmarkOtterSetGet-8        	23599550	       374.4 ns/op	      24 B/op	       0 allocs/op
PASS
ok  	command-line-arguments	104.140s

GC scan

The GC scan times as below. Check github gcscan action for more results and details.

GC scan times on keysize=16(string), valuesize=8(int), cachesize in (100000,200000,400000,1000000)
// env GODEBUG=gctrace=1 go run gcscan.go phuslu 1000000 
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"runtime"
	"runtime/debug"
	"strconv"
	"time"

	theine "github.com/Yiling-J/theine-go"
	"github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2"
	cloudflare "github.com/cloudflare/golibs/lrucache"
	ristretto "github.com/dgraph-io/ristretto/v2"
	freelru "github.com/elastic/go-freelru"
	hashicorp "github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v2/expirable"
	ccache "github.com/karlseguin/ccache/v3"
	lxzan "github.com/lxzan/memorycache"
	otter "github.com/maypok86/otter/v2"
	ecache "github.com/orca-zhang/ecache"
	phuslu "github.com/phuslu/lru"
)

const keysize = 16
var repeat, _ = strconv.Atoi(os.Getenv("repeat"))

var keys []string

func main() {
	name := os.Args[1]
	cachesize, _ := strconv.Atoi(os.Args[2])

	keys = make([]string, cachesize)
	for i := range cachesize {
		keys[i] = fmt.Sprintf(fmt.Sprintf("%%0%dd", keysize), i)
	}

	map[string]func(int){
		"nottl":      SetupNottl,
		"phuslu":     SetupPhuslu,
		"freelru":    SetupFreelru,
		"ristretto":  SetupRistretto,
		"otter":      SetupOtter,
		"lxzan":      SetupLxzan,
		"ecache":     SetupEcache,
		"cloudflare": SetupCloudflare,
		"ccache":     SetupCcache,
		"hashicorp":  SetupHashicorp,
		"theine":     SetupTheine,
	}[name](cachesize)
}

func SetupNottl(cachesize int) {
	defer debug.SetGCPercent(debug.SetGCPercent(-1))
	cache := phuslu.NewLRUCache[string, int](cachesize)
	runtime.GC()
	for range repeat {
		for i := range cachesize {
			cache.Set(keys[i], i)
		}
		runtime.GC()
	}
}

func SetupPhuslu(cachesize int) {
	defer debug.SetGCPercent(debug.SetGCPercent(-1))
	cache := phuslu.NewTTLCache[string, int](cachesize)
	runtime.GC()
	for range repeat {
		for i := range cachesize {
			cache.Set(keys[i], i, time.Hour)
		}
		runtime.GC()
	}
}

func SetupFreelru(cachesize int) {
	defer debug.SetGCPercent(debug.SetGCPercent(-1))
	cache, _ := freelru.NewSharded[string, int](uint32(cachesize), func(s string) uint32 { return uint32(xxhash.Sum64String(s)) })
	runtime.GC()
	for range repeat {
		for i := range cachesize {
			cache.AddWithLifetime(keys[i], i, time.Hour)
		}
		runtime.GC()
	}
}

func SetupOtter(cachesize int) {
	defer debug.SetGCPercent(debug.SetGCPercent(-1))
	cache := otter.Must[string, int](&otter.Options[string, int]{MaximumSize: cachesize, InitialCapacity: cachesize})
	runtime.GC()
	for range repeat {
		for i := range cachesize {
			cache.Set(keys[i], i)
			cache.SetExpiresAfter(keys[i], time.Hour)
		}
		runtime.GC()
	}
}

func SetupEcache(cachesize int) {
	defer debug.SetGCPercent(debug.SetGCPercent(-1))
	cache := ecache.NewLRUCache(1024, uint16(cachesize/1024), time.Hour)
	runtime.GC()
	for range repeat {
		for i := range cachesize {
			cache.Put(keys[i], i)
		}
		runtime.GC()
	}
}

func SetupRistretto(cachesize int) {
	defer debug.SetGCPercent(debug.SetGCPercent(-1))
	cache, _ := ristretto.NewCache(&ristretto.Config[string, int]{
		NumCounters: int64(10 * cachesize), // number of keys to track frequency of (10M).
		MaxCost:     int64(cachesize),      // maximum cost of cache (1M).
		BufferItems: 64,                    // number of keys per Get buffer.
	})
	runtime.GC()
	for range repeat {
		for i := range cachesize {
			cache.SetWithTTL(keys[i], i, 1, time.Hour)
		}
		runtime.GC()
	}
}

func SetupLxzan(cachesize int) {
	defer debug.SetGCPercent(debug.SetGCPercent(-1))
	cache := lxzan.New[string, int](
		lxzan.WithBucketNum(128),
		lxzan.WithBucketSize(cachesize/128, cachesize/128),
		lxzan.WithInterval(time.Hour, time.Hour),
	)
	runtime.GC()
	for range repeat {
		for i := range cachesize {
			cache.Set(keys[i], i, time.Hour)
		}
		runtime.GC()
	}
}

func SetupTheine(cachesize int) {
	defer debug.SetGCPercent(debug.SetGCPercent(-1))
	cache, _ := theine.NewBuilder[string, int](int64(cachesize)).Build()
	runtime.GC()
	for range repeat {
		for i := range cachesize {
			cache.SetWithTTL(keys[i], i, 1, time.Hour)
		}
		runtime.GC()
	}
}

func SetupCloudflare(cachesize int) {
	defer debug.SetGCPercent(debug.SetGCPercent(-1))
	cache := cloudflare.NewMultiLRUCache(1024, uint(cachesize/1024))
	runtime.GC()
	for range repeat {
		for i := range cachesize {
			cache.Set(keys[i], i, time.Now().Add(time.Hour))
		}
		runtime.GC()
	}
}

func SetupCcache(cachesize int) {
	defer debug.SetGCPercent(debug.SetGCPercent(-1))
	cache := ccache.New(ccache.Configure[int]().MaxSize(int64(cachesize)).PercentToPrune(2))
	runtime.GC()
	for range repeat {
		for i := range cachesize {
			cache.Set(keys[i], i, time.Hour)
		}
		runtime.GC()
	}
}

func SetupHashicorp(cachesize int) {
	defer debug.SetGCPercent(debug.SetGCPercent(-1))
	cache := hashicorp.NewLRU[string, int](cachesize, nil, time.Hour)
	runtime.GC()
	for range repeat {
		for i := range cachesize {
			cache.Add(keys[i], i)
		}
		runtime.GC()
	}
}
GCScan 100000 200000 400000 1000000
ristretto 1 ms 2 ms 3 ms 7 ms
nottl 1 ms 2 ms 4 ms 10 ms
phuslu 1 ms 2 ms 4 ms 10 ms
freelru 1 ms 2 ms 4 ms 13 ms
lxzan 1 ms 3 ms 6 ms 14 ms
otter 3 ms 6 ms 11 ms 31 ms
ecache 3 ms 6 ms 12 ms 34 ms
ccache 3 ms 7 ms 14 ms 38 ms
theine 4 ms 8 ms 16 ms 46 ms
cloudflare 4 ms 9 ms 18 ms 49 ms
hashicorp 5 ms 11 ms 23 ms 65 ms

Memory usage

The Memory usage result as below. Check github memory action for more results and details.

memory usage on keysize=16(string), valuesize=8(int), cachesize in (100000,200000,400000,1000000,2000000,4000000)
// memusage.go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"runtime"
	"time"
	"strconv"

	theine "github.com/Yiling-J/theine-go"
	"github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2"
	cloudflare "github.com/cloudflare/golibs/lrucache"
	ristretto "github.com/dgraph-io/ristretto/v2"
	freelru "github.com/elastic/go-freelru"
	hashicorp "github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v2/expirable"
	ccache "github.com/karlseguin/ccache/v3"
	lxzan "github.com/lxzan/memorycache"
	otter "github.com/maypok86/otter/v2"
	ecache "github.com/orca-zhang/ecache"
	phuslu "github.com/phuslu/lru"
)

const keysize = 16

var keys []string

func main() {
	name := os.Args[1]
	cachesize, _ := strconv.Atoi(os.Args[2])

	keys = make([]string, cachesize)
	for i := range cachesize {
		keys[i] = fmt.Sprintf(fmt.Sprintf("%%0%dd", keysize), i)
	}

	var o runtime.MemStats
	runtime.ReadMemStats(&o)

	map[string]func(int){
		"nottl":      SetupNottl,
		"phuslu":     SetupPhuslu,
		"freelru":    SetupFreelru,
		"ristretto":  SetupRistretto,
		"otter":      SetupOtter,
		"lxzan":      SetupLxzan,
		"ecache":     SetupEcache,
		"cloudflare": SetupCloudflare,
		"ccache":     SetupCcache,
		"hashicorp":  SetupHashicorp,
		"theine":     SetupTheine,
	}[name](cachesize)

	var m runtime.MemStats
	runtime.ReadMemStats(&m)

	fmt.Printf("%s\t%d\t%v MB\t%v MB\t%v MB\n",
		name,
		cachesize,
		(m.Alloc-o.Alloc)/1048576,
		(m.TotalAlloc-o.TotalAlloc)/1048576,
		(m.Sys-o.Sys)/1048576,
	)
}

func SetupNottl(cachesize int) {
	cache := phuslu.NewLRUCache[string, int](cachesize)
	for i := range cachesize {
		cache.Set(keys[i], i)
	}
}

func SetupPhuslu(cachesize int) {
	cache := phuslu.NewTTLCache[string, int](cachesize)
	for i := range cachesize {
		cache.Set(keys[i], i, time.Hour)
	}
}

func SetupFreelru(cachesize int) {
	cache, _ := freelru.NewSharded[string, int](uint32(cachesize), func(s string) uint32 { return uint32(xxhash.Sum64String(s)) })
	for i := range cachesize {
		cache.AddWithLifetime(keys[i], i, time.Hour)
	}
}

func SetupOtter(cachesize int) {
	cache := otter.Must[string, int](&otter.Options[string, int]{MaximumSize: cachesize, InitialCapacity: cachesize})
	for i := range cachesize {
		cache.Set(keys[i], i)
		cache.SetExpiresAfter(keys[i], time.Hour)
	}
}

func SetupEcache(cachesize int) {
	cache := ecache.NewLRUCache(1024, uint16(cachesize/1024), time.Hour)
	for i := range cachesize {
		cache.Put(keys[i], i)
	}
}

func SetupRistretto(cachesize int) {
	cache, _ := ristretto.NewCache(&ristretto.Config[string, int]{
		NumCounters: int64(10 * cachesize), // number of keys to track frequency of (10M).
		MaxCost:     int64(cachesize),      // maximum cost of cache (1M).
		BufferItems: 64,             // number of keys per Get buffer.
	})
	for i := range cachesize {
		cache.SetWithTTL(keys[i], i, 1, time.Hour)
	}
}

func SetupLxzan(cachesize int) {
	cache := lxzan.New[string, int](
		lxzan.WithBucketNum(128),
		lxzan.WithBucketSize(cachesize/128, cachesize/128),
		lxzan.WithInterval(time.Hour, time.Hour),
	)
	for i := range cachesize {
		cache.Set(keys[i], i, time.Hour)
	}
}

func SetupTheine(cachesize int) {
	cache, _ := theine.NewBuilder[string, int](int64(cachesize)).Build()
	for i := range cachesize {
		cache.SetWithTTL(keys[i], i, 1, time.Hour)
	}
}

func SetupCloudflare(cachesize int) {
	cache := cloudflare.NewMultiLRUCache(1024, uint(cachesize/1024))
	for i := range cachesize {
		cache.Set(keys[i], i, time.Now().Add(time.Hour))
	}
}

func SetupCcache(cachesize int) {
	cache := ccache.New(ccache.Configure[int]().MaxSize(int64(cachesize)).PercentToPrune(2))
	for i := range cachesize {
		cache.Set(keys[i], i, time.Hour)
	}
}

func SetupHashicorp(cachesize int) {
	cache := hashicorp.NewLRU[string, int](cachesize, nil, time.Hour)
	for i := range cachesize {
		cache.Add(keys[i], i)
	}
}
100000 200000 400000 1000000 2000000 4000000
nottl 3 MB 6 MB 13 MB 38 MB 77 MB 154 MB
phuslu 4 MB 8 MB 16 MB 46 MB 92 MB 185 MB
ristretto 8 MB 12 MB 28 MB 79 MB 152 MB 292 MB
otter 7 MB 14 MB 28 MB 79 MB 158 MB 314 MB
lxzan 8 MB 17 MB 35 MB 101 MB 202 MB 403 MB
freelru 6 MB 13 MB 27 MB 112 MB 224 MB 448 MB
ecache 11 MB 22 MB 45 MB 128 MB 256 MB 505 MB
theine 14 MB 28 MB 58 MB 156 MB 314 MB 620 MB
ccache 14 MB 29 MB 59 MB 161 MB 329 MB 658 MB
cloudflare 15 MB 31 MB 62 MB 180 MB 352 MB 705 MB
hashicorp 16 MB 27 MB 55 MB 228 MB 455 MB 910 MB
  • nottl is the phuslu/lru version without ttl functionality, resulting in 20% memory saving and a slight increase in throughput.

Hit ratio

It is a classic sharded LRU implementation, so the hit ratio is comparable to or slightly lower than a regular LRU.

License

LRU is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Contact

For inquiries or support, contact phus.lu@gmail.com or raise github issues.

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