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- Q: what is relationship between LRU and OPT?
- Q: how could LRU be implemented? Cost?
- Tradeoff between implementation cost and performance
- Q: how could LRU be approximated?
- See H&P pp.379 for comparison of LRU and random replacement
- Random is nearly as good as LRU, especially for larger caches
- Random is considerably easier to implement