How to remove item from heap efficiently?

[Paul Rubin]

srinivas devaki <mr.eightnoteight at gmail.com> writes:
> I googled about "timing wheels" and "Linux kernel scheduler"

Sorry, correct term was "timer wheel" rather than "timing wheel".

http://www.elinux.org/Kernel_Timer_Systems has some links.

The Erlang BEAM internal scheduler works the same way, iirc.