Re: real-time Java

[Wesley Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com>]

>>>How the heck you do that with a language subject to garbage collection
>>>is going to be an interesting thing to watch happen.

Don't know much about it, but I read more than a year ago
that some company had a JVM with "guaranteed deterministic"
timing.

> And also by choosing an appropriate garbage collector. Some real time tasks
> can tolerate the delays introduced by a garbage collector.

How about a garbage collector in a lower priority
task that runs continuosly for some percentage of
CPU time instead of hogging the machine only when
desperately needed?

(Another thing that would be nice is a JVM that is
a shared library or resident in the OS or something,
instead of--this is for multi-user environments, BTW--
having every Java program running its own copy of the JVM.)