News to me, but a guy named Sam Russell came up with a new software only CRC32 algorithm that is competitive with hardware accelerated implementations. It's a surprisingly elegant solution.
What are the units on the vertical axes for figures 1 and 2? I might have guessed seconds per TiB but the braiding line doesn't seem to match what's in figure 3.
The wikipedia article traces it to Persian, which formed it as a compound of words from different East Iranian languages. So you are on the money with Middle Eastern. From there it spread to the Balkan via Ottoman Turkish, and also from Persian to dialectal Arabic, which would explain the occurrences in Northern Africa, and maybe even Spain
> This implementation is named after the Serbian singer
Bora Đorđević (also known as Bora Čorba) who was born
in 1952 and died in 2024. His birth year matches the
number of the GZIP standard RFC 1952 that describes
a common CRC32 implementation, and the original proof
of concept for this method used the polynomial x21 +x15 +
x14 + x11 + x10 + x7 + x3 which is x1952×8 mod G(x).
[0] https://dle.rae.es/chorbo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorba
Then again there are like 10 different ways to refer to soup in the various dialects.
/Edit: actually in all North Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorba
> This implementation is named after the Serbian singer Bora Đorđević (also known as Bora Čorba) who was born in 1952 and died in 2024. His birth year matches the number of the GZIP standard RFC 1952 that describes a common CRC32 implementation, and the original proof of concept for this method used the polynomial x21 +x15 + x14 + x11 + x10 + x7 + x3 which is x1952×8 mod G(x).
That is indeed dedication.