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How can unbounded caches cause memory problems?
Tests whether you know a cache with no eviction policy or size bound is functionally a memory leak -- every entry stays reachable forever -- and that the fix is a bounded cache with an eviction strategy (LRU, TTL, or a weak-reference-based cache).
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