Real time for what?

Posted Nov 22, 2012 13:35 UTC (Thu) by mb (subscriber, #50428)
In reply to: Real time for what? by dlang
Parent article: LCE: Realtime, present and future

> doing so and posting benchamrk numbers showing latency doesn't matter

Ehm what?

> what would matter is if there is anything showing that this makes a difference in the part being machined.

If it would make a difference to the machined parts, either the previous RTAI based implementation or the new Linux-RT-preempt based implementation would be seriously broken.

> That page was big on the 'how to' but utterly lacking in the 'why go to this effort'

We do this, because it simplifies the software a lot and gets rid of all those ugly RTAI kernel modules.