The pancake plate pattern allows for a bundled transfer of aggregated data items.
It is similar to stacks or queues, where data items are put “on top”. The technical terms for taking off items from stacks and queues are “popping” and “shifting”, respectively. In the case of using the pancake plate pattern however, there is no popping or shifting. The plate is marked as finished when all items have been successfully added, and then the plate is served in it’s entirety.
This way of first aggregating data and only on data-completeness transferring the whole bundle has been found to be extremely useful for intertimensional travel, allowing for an incredible increase of about 1005%
in efficiency when operating time-dimensional warp tablairs.