[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] JJack 0.1 - Java for JACK initial release

[Jens M Andreasen]

On fre, 2004-05-28 at 08:47, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:

> i think the question is, how do you program real-time applications 
> in java? you'd need to switch off the garbage collector entirely 
> when the real-time thread runs, and only activate it when the system 
> has cycles to spare. how do you do that?

Apparently turning off the garbage collector is not a valid option. The
idea is instead to have a realtime friendly gc with known maximum
latency. A starting point for the proposed extension can be found here:

 http://www.rtj.org/

.. and here:

 http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~corsaro/jRate/index.html

.. and with a warning for a silly, non realtime, slow loading applet
even here:

 http://tao.doc.wustl.edu/rtj/


mvh // Jens M andreasen