Re: who said Java can't be used for realtime !

[Marin David Condic <condicma@pwfl.com>]

You'll have to define what you mean by "Real-Time Systems". I know lots
of people who think that a workstation based application which has to
respond to user's mouse-clicks in some acceptable amount of time is
"Real-Time". Then you've got systems that have to monitor and adjust
some real world electromechanical contraption where response time has to
be measured in milliseconds - or even microseconds - and stopping to
collect the garbage is just not an acceptable thing to do.

Java can be used for real-time if you are very careful about what you
call real-time. But that's like saying that Unix is "user-friendly" only
its very picky about who its friends are.

MDC

bill_k@moonlight_entreprise.nospam.com wrote:
> 
> see http://www.java.sun.com/features/1998/11/fishtank.html
> 
> about 60% into the above page we read:
> 
> "Even for a real-time system, it was better to let the system just garbage
> collect when it needed to instead of trying to predict when you thought it
> was a good time. The system just responded better that way."
> 
> OK, so this is it. Java can also do realtime just fine, even with GC !
> 
> any rebuttle from the Ada fans?
> 
> bill.

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