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Comment on Ask HN: Fast data structures for disjoint intervals?

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How about hierarchical timing wheels?

"Hashed and Hierarchical Timing Wheels: Data Structures for the Efficient Implementation of a Timer Facility" by George Varghese and Tony Lauck

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nahum/w6998/papers/sosp87-timing...

Sounds interesting, I’ll check it out, thanks! Skimming through it quickly it seems like it may be focused on actual running timers instead of tracking intervals, but some of the ideas might still apply to this problem.

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