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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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