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If 1-2 ms is too much to recover from a crash, you better have three or four backup systems written in different languages and running on different hardware. Ye
by z3t4 10y ago
If 1-2 ms is too much to recover from a crash, you better have three or four backup systems written in different languages and running on different hardware. Yet there is no guarantee you will have 100% uptime. And in such a system, having data corruption would probably be far worse then a crash.
One application where I think crashes are bad are computer games, for example if you are fighting a boss, it's better to get a few glitches then having the game crash.
- mikeash 10y agoI'm not sure it's even true of computer games, since you might end up corrupting the player's save and destroying all of their progress. The argument for crashing is at least a bit weaker there, though.