caveman_db.txt

caveman_db.txt

Big Bucket Rock Sorter

Short Answer
Big cloud bucket is very far away.
Put flat sorted rocks in bucket.
Keep map in fast camp.
Smash small rocks into big rocks often.
Send many hunters at once.
Math is good but only if you smash.

Rule 1 Heavy Rock Storage
Bucket holds flat and sorted and squeezed rocks.
No pointers on rocks.
Pointers mean walking back to bucket again and again.
Walking back and forth makes caveman die.
Bucket just holds heavy bytes.

Rule 2 Throwing New Rocks
Do not walk to bucket for one small berry.
Keep fast camp.
When camp full make new rock.
Throw new rock to bucket.
New rocks might be smaller.
Small rocks okay for short time.
But million tiny pebbles is poison.
To delete do not walk to bucket to scratch old rock.
Just write minus one on new rock.
Plus one is make.
Minus one is kill.

Rule 3 Smashing Rocks
Math is magic but math cannot save you from a million pebbles.
Too many minus one and plus one rocks make big brain slow and tired reading them all.
Background caveman MUST smash rocks together often.
Plus one and minus one hit each other and disappear.
Background caveman makes one big clean rock.
Put back in bucket.
Smashing bounds the mess.
Smashing makes math fast.

Rule 4 Hunting Paths
Cannot hunt all animals with one rock shape.
If need special hunt you must sort rocks different way.
Make copy of rocks and sort new way and put in bucket.
Cost more bucket space but hunt is very fast.
Just sorted rocks for specific hunt.

Rule 5 The Fast Map and Many Hunters
Smart map stay at fast camp.
Map say exactly which rocks to get.
Map say do not look at those rocks because animal not there.
Send MANY hunters to bucket AT SAME TIME to grab all rocks we need.
Do not send hunter then read rock then send hunter back.
Grab all at once.
When rocks at camp big brain chew them fast.
Straight line.
Math makes minus one deletes go away in the chew.
But remember math only fast because background caveman smashes often.

Rule 6 Fast Questions Need Special Rocks
Some questions cannot be answered by just adding plus one and minus one rocks.
How many DIFFERENT animals?
Biggest?
Smallest?
First ten?
Top ten fastest?
For these keep small helpers in fast camp.
Counting bag gets one mark per different animal.
Update bag when new plus one or minus one rocks arrive.
For very very many different animals use tiny guessing bag.
Tiny guessing bag is fast and close enough.
No full bucket chew.
Rock labels write biggest and smallest on each rock label.
Map answers big or small without opening rocks.
Ordered paths follow the sorted rock path and stop after ten.
If question wants order that no path has keep a small lookout rock for that order.
Keep helpers fresh after every smash.
Helpers live in camp not far bucket.

Rule 7 The Sacred List
Many cavemen hunt and smash at same time.
If one caveman reads while another is smashing brain gets confused.
See half old rocks and half new rocks.
This is murderpoison.
To fix keep one Sacred List.
Sacred List says exactly which rocks are true right now.
When smashing caveman makes new big rocks nobody looks at them yet.
Only when smashing is totally done caveman writes new Sacred List.
Switch is instant.
All hunters read old list until new list is ready.
No broken hunts.

Rule 8 The Bucket Toll
Bucket chief charges shells for every trip.
Walking a million times for small bits is murderpoison.
Caveman will go broke.
When sending hunters tell them to grab huge chunks of rock at once.
Tell hunters to grab many rocks close together at once.
Keep favorite rocks in fast camp so you do not pay bucket chief twice for same rock.

Conclusion
Bucket far.
Camp near.
Sort rocks.
Smash rocks so pebbles do not pile up.
Keep map.
Send many hunters.
Math is better than questions but only if you smash.
Make fire.