From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: who said Java can't be used for realtime !
Date: 1998/11/27
Date: 1998-11-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811271019470.8544-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 73l99p$t3o@drn.newsguy.com
On 26 Nov 1998 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."
Obviously the system being described is not a HARD real time system, where
HARD refers to the predictability of the response times. "Real time" is
unfortunately a haeavily overloaded concept these days. Hard real time
garbage collection is still something of a research topic. "Soft" real
time systems, i.e., those which are "fast enough", can certainly use GC;
Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications company, has been using the
functional programming language Erlang to program telecom systems.
Read about it at http://www.erlang.se/erlang/sure/main/products/
-- Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-11-27 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-26 0:00 who said Java can't be used for realtime ! bill_k
1998-11-27 0:00 ` Roga Danar
1998-11-27 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1998-11-30 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1998-11-30 0:00 ` whiter5195
1998-12-01 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1998-11-30 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1998-12-04 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
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