4 Jun
2004
4 Jun
'04
5:52 a.m.
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