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William Swansen has worked in the employment assistance realm since 2007. He is an author, job search strategist, and career advisor who helps individuals worldwide and in various professions to find their ideal careers.
Having a favorite programming language tells a lot about the experience and expertise level of a software developer. There are numerous languages to pick from, and depending on what applications you are working on, and what you are intending to achieve, some might work better than others. A hiring manager at Salesforce might start with a question about what your favorite language is, and then move to your approach and possibly your methodology or reasoning for favoring that language. Your pre-interview research should tell you what languages the developers at Salesforce use, which can help you structure your answer. Let me give an example of how this question might be answered. If we intend to use Java for this example, we would look at the LRU cache and recently used entries, then remove the element from the bottom and add an element to the start of a LinkedList and wherever any entry is accessed, it is moved to the top so that recently used entries will reside at the top, and the least used entries will reside on the bottom.

William Swansen has worked in the employment assistance realm since 2007. He is an author, job search strategist, and career advisor who helps individuals worldwide and in various professions to find their ideal careers.
"The way I approach implementing an LRU Cache is really based on what programming language is used in the development environment. Yes, I do have a preference, but I consider it a tool in a toolbox, I use whatever is available to me. Java seems to be a tool of choice in most development environments, and for me as well. Say for example we are given total possible page numbers that can be referred. We are also given cache (or memory) size (Number of page frames that the cache can hold at a given time). The LRU caching scheme is intended to remove the least recently used frame when the cache is full and thus a new page is referenced which was not in the cache before. Example of this approach and method are referenced in the Galvin book."

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