Most Recently Used

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Most Recently Used (MRU) is a term used in computer science that refers to an uncommon method of caching disk access, with LRU being a more common mechanism. MRU cache systems replace the most recently used addresses with those of incoming sectors.

This caching mechanism is used when access is unpredictable, and determining the least most recently used section of the cache system is a high time complexity operation. A common example of this is database memory caches.