Depends on how you build your application. Small focused processes work great. If you're not careful, and all the functionality gets stuck in one huge executabl

Depends on how you build your application. Small focused processes work great. If you're not careful, and all the functionality gets stuck in one huge executable, it's possible to have long pauses. If that one huge executable winds up interacting with a serial device, like an old printer, or dumb terminal, well buffers are small. data gets lost. you have to resync and it sucks. FWIW, my experience with that stuff is with java perhaps a decade ago. It can all be made to work with smaller heaps, better partitioning, but you wind up introducing more, but bigger buffers. It almost never matters. Right up until you have to read the status from some old microscope, or something equally obscure.