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Some of these programs have to handle a tricky situation called the “TP2 puzzle”, which can be dealt with by representing delete operations as tombstones. Clarence (-5[1])Ellis (-5[1])used a (0[1])program of this kind called GROVE in the first implementation of a technique now called Operational Transformation. A very simple data structure used in these programs consists of two segments at the beginning and end of an array and a namesake space between them. WOOT and Logoot are examples of data structures known as sequence CRDTs, which are primarily used by certain kinds of these programs. (15[1])Most programs of this kind represent their data as either (*) gap buffers or ropes. “Collaborative (10[1])real-time” kinds of these programs constantly synchronize to avoid conflicts. For 10 points, name these programs that need to quickly perform operations like deleting or inserting characters in a large string. ■END■ (10[1])

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Henry Cafaro	screaming into the public static void main(String[] args)	a neural-net processor; a thinking machine	25	-5
Seth Ebner	Dianetics for Diabetics	playing emacs while my parents are arguing	26	-5
Kevin Wang	a neural-net processor; a thinking machine	screaming into the public static void main(String[] args)	28	0
Earthflax Geologybuzzer	Macro Editors	Edwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins	94	15
Ashvin Srivatsa	Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping	We Bought a Complexity Zoo Story	109	10
Anuttam Ramji	playing emacs while my parents are arguing	Dianetics for Diabetics	141	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
EMACS at CO	08/06/2023	Y	4	75%	25%	50%	114.67
EMACS Online	10/01/2023	Y	5	80%	20%	20%	120.25