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Re:Ratas – A hierarchical timer wheel by rimantas on Saturday July 30, 2016 @03:15PM (#12194274)
I was intrigued by the name—"ratas" means "wheel" in Lithuanian, but the author appeears to be from Switzerland and neither first nor last names are even remotely Lithuanian. Even more intriguing then…
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Re:Ratas – A hierarchical timer wheel by sharken on Saturday July 30, 2016 @03:35PM (#12194351)
Not so intriguing i think, ratas also means Wheel in Finnish which matches at least the authors first name. For reference: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ratas
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Re:Ratas – A hierarchical timer wheel by Sharlin on Saturday July 30, 2016 @04:02PM (#12194457)
Indeed. Interesting it's from PIE via Lithuanian - I hadn't thought about it before but it is cognate with English rota, rotate via Latin.
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Re:Ratas – A hierarchical timer wheel by jacobush on Saturday July 30, 2016 @07:11PM (#12195038)
Ratt is steering wheel in Swedish. Bet its PIE.
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Re:Ratas – A hierarchical timer wheel by rimantas on Sunday July 31, 2016 @09:00AM (#12196776)
TIL. I had no idea, Lithuanina and Finnish being in different language groups that we can have same words :)
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Re:Ratas – A hierarchical timer wheel by pisipisipisi on Saturday July 30, 2016 @04:44PM (#12194630)
And Estonian..
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Re:Ratas – A hierarchical timer wheel by ggambetta on Saturday July 30, 2016 @05:45PM (#12194808)
I was also intrigued... it means "rats" in Spanish. I had no idea it meant anything in Lithuanian.
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