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@@ -209,6 +209,8 @@ in the paper
.%T "Hashed and Hierarchical Timing Wheels: Data Structures for the Efficient Implementation of a Timer Facility"
in the
.%B "Proceedings of the 11th ACM Annual Symposium on Operating Systems Principles" .
-The current implementation replaces the long standing BSD linked list
+The current implementation replaces the long standing
+.Bx
+linked list
callout mechanism which offered O(n) insertion and removal running time
but did not generate or require handles for untimeout operations.
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