Implement a recent-use eviction cache

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Implement a recent-use eviction cache

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This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design and implement a fixed-capacity key-value cache with a recent-use eviction policy, emphasizing data structure design, state management, and meeting average O(1) time constraints for get and put operations.

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Implement a recent-use eviction cache