Re: real-time Java

["Mark Thornton" <m.p.thornton@ntlworld.com>]

"Wesley Groleau" <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in message
news:Jj6dnZQ3ZIVegAGjXTWcpg@gbronline.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.)
>

In addition to the standard garbage collector the current Sun JVM has 3
other collectors:
1) an incremental collector
2) a concurrent collector
3) a parallel collector

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/changes.html#vm

Mark Thornton