From: donh@syd.csa.com.au (Don Harrison)
Subject: Re: A comparison of Ada and Modula 3
Date: 1996/02/21
Date: 1996-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Dn5G9K.71L@assip.csasyd.oz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: adaworksDn32G8.14B@netcom.com
Richard Riehle wrote:
[...]
: Langauges that consistently do automatic garbage collection will not
: perform correctly in embedded, hard, real-time (HRTS) weapons systems.
: They work fine, though, for desk-top systems in which safety is not an
: issue.
This is certainly true for single processor architectures. There is a trend
towards parallel architectures (such as SMP - Shared Memory Processing) becoming
more affordable. When they enter mainstream computing sometime in the
not-too-distant future, background processing (such as GC) can be done on a
separate processor from the RT application proper. Then, GC will be a viable proposition for HRTS.
: Richard Riehle
: adaworks@netcom.com
Don.
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