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And THAT is the problem

Posted Aug 25, 2011 13:30 UTC (Thu) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: And THAT is the problem by cmccabe
Parent article: HP dropping webOS devices

incremental GC != real time GC.

To have no pause, you need a real time GC not merely an incremental GC!
And real time GCs, especially free one are rare indeed.

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Posted Sep 4, 2011 20:41 UTC (Sun) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]

Non sequitor. User interfaces have never been a hard real-time problem. Human reaction latencies are measured in hundreds of milliseconds.