Improving idle behavior in tickless systems
Improving idle behavior in tickless systems
Posted Dec 31, 2018 23:48 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)In reply to: Improving idle behavior in tickless systems by rweikusat2
Parent article: Improving idle behavior in tickless systems
> This may well be a sensible heuristic but a heuristic it remains --- no fortune telling aka "prediction" involved.
Prediction != fortune telling. There are multiple meanings for the same word.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prediction
One of them is forecast which is defined as
"to calculate or predict (some future event or condition) usually as a result of study and analysis of available pertinent data"