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SimpleMemoryBackend - set max size

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#498 opened on Jun 15, 2020

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Description

When using SimpleMemoryBackend, should be important set the max size of internal dict

an idea is use an algorithm to select what to do when dict is "full", remove last element, first, random, rlu ...

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Implement a max size for SimpleMemoryBackend with an eviction policy (e.g., LRU). Study the current memory backend code, add a max size parameter, and implement eviction when the dict exceeds the limit.
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python
Domain
backend
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Pythonasyncio
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