Opportunity: Software Execution Time Determinism

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/14/2016 5:28 PM, Observer wrote:
> It's been a long time since I was involved in real-time work,
> but back in that time frame, I used to collect documents on all
> sorts of computer-related topics.  My set of papers on "Real-Time
> Programming and Scheduling" runs to a dozen volumes.  The point
> is, nobody should think that this area can be suitably addressed
> with just a few language tweaks.  It's really a thesis-level topic
> (and was, many times in those days, and I would expect so since
> then as well).  Before you start thinking about language-level
> support, educate yourself about the larger context.  Start with
> "Rate Monotonic Analysis" and follow leads from there.

My worry would be coming up with a language feature, implementing it, and then 
discovering it is useless.