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Determinism

Determinism

Posted Aug 22, 2005 12:00 UTC (Mon) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: Determinism by xoddam
Parent article: Looking at Real Time for Linux, PowerPC, and Cell (developerWorks)

He's talking about deterministic timing, not output. I.e., does it always take the same amount of time to do the same operation? If you can't get that, you settle for maximum latency instead. With sufficiently blurred vision, the response patterns match, providing you have someplace to wait if the result comes back too quickly.


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