Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 10:35 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/23/2014 12:13 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> > But for real time you would just have to remove the
> > GC completely to have the needed guarantees.
> 
> 
> malloc/free cannot be used in hard real time systems, either. malloc/free do not 
> have latency guarantees.

By estimating the resource needs and preallocating a freelist, you can
get round this issue. C++ is quite good at supporting this sort of
stuff.

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