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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada, the best language with the not-so-best tool chain
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:41:44 +0200, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:

> Le Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:18:29 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov  
> <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a écrit:
>> Yes. But even with many tasks active latencies under 100µs are doable.  
>> Not for an ARM of course.
> 
> I may have not read the thread carefully enough, but why this “not for an  
> ARM of course”? Clock speed? Hardware interface? Other reason? (that  
> thread drove me to try to learn a bit about the topic, which is new to me).

It was not so simple for us to do with an i5, impossible with an Atom 330.
ARM is in a different league.

But you never know before you started. And even then there are many reasons
why some quite powerful processor could fail miserably. We had a quite
embarrassing experience with some Freescale PPC.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de