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Re: RCX and Java
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Tue, 4 May 1999 20:10:12 GMT
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John A. Tamplin <jat@liveonthenet.com^stopspammers^>
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On Tue, 4 May 1999, Ola Liljedahl wrote:
> Aren't robots real time systems?
> Isn't the RCX meant to be a component in such real time systems?
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> Java (as implemented by current virtual machines) is NOT suitable
> as a platform for building real time systems. The implementation of
> garbage collection is not deterministic and may take a very long
> time to execute. You Emacs users out there should recognise the problem...
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> We should make the distinction between real time systems and embedded
> systems. Java is fine for embedded systems with no real time requirements.
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> In my line of business I see some Java being used in real time systems.
> But never for real time purposes, only for low priority (as regards to
> real time properties) operation and maintenance.
I doubt anyone is considering using the RCX with any OS/language in a hard
real-time system. The original firmware nor any of the replacements make
the proper guarantees required for such a system (ie, a deadline-based
scheduler), and I have not heard anyone suggest that such a system should
be implemented.
You can write Java code that avoids garbage collection, basically you dump
the immutable object concept (ie, the String class creates a new String
object when anything is changed) and instead pass in the object for the
result of a computation.
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