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The Tick-Off Heuristic & Stream Splitting
Building a workable network match by match, and when a stream must be split to keep every match feasible.
10 min read Β· Jacob Willis, Net Zero Lead
The previous lesson's network was simple because there was only one hot stream and one cold stream to match. Real processes have several of each on a side of the pinch, and two problems appear that a single-pair match never faces: which stream do you match first, and what do you do when the feasibility rule says no pairing works?