Github user ben-manes commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/940 That makes sense. A uniform distribution will, of course, degrades all policies to random replacement so the test is then about how well the implementations handle concurrency. Most often caches exhibit a Zipfian distribution (80-20 rule), so our bias towards frequency is a net gain. We have observed a few rare cases where frequency is a poor signal and LRU is optimal, and we are exploring adaptive techniques to dynamically tune the cache based on the workload's characteristics. These cases don't seem to occur in many real-world scenarios that we know of, but it is always nice to know what users are experiencing and how much better (or worse) we perform than a standard LRU cache.
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