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Can decompression cause issues with real-time applications? Say a packet of data takes a little longer to process than another.
by bluedino 6y ago
Can decompression cause issues with real-time applications? Say a packet of data takes a little longer to process than another.
- mhh__ 6y agoI think yes in principle although this is why you test things thoroughly (In an embedded context there both probably won't be much data flowing around and the code will probably be simple enough that any glaring problems should be fairly obvious) Ultimately it depends on whether you mean embedded as in a self-driving car, or embedded as in a microwave controller.
- icegreentea2 6y agoYou would need to understand what the worst case decoding time/operations for a given sized packet, and build your system/code around that. Real-time does not necessarily mean that all operation X must take exact same time, it just means that you know that all operation X will occur within some span.
- magicsmoke 6y agoReal-time systems are unfortunately named. Time-constrained systems would have been better. Variable naming is, after all, one of the two real hard things in Compsci.
- jononor 6y agoLatency constrained perhaps? Time has many meanings.