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Until the problem statement clearly specifies that the leaderboard is immutable (meaning the player's scores, as they are processed and a ranking is assigned, do not change the leaderboard), I don't believe the timeout test cases are valid. You need to KNOW that the leaderboard is intended to be immutable to achieve the needed performance. Am I wrong?
Climbing the Leaderboard
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Until the problem statement clearly specifies that the leaderboard is immutable (meaning the player's scores, as they are processed and a ranking is assigned, do not change the leaderboard), I don't believe the timeout test cases are valid. You need to KNOW that the leaderboard is intended to be immutable to achieve the needed performance. Am I wrong?
Or you need to know that player scores are always increasing, which is nowhere near a valid real world scenario.