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What do you consider a long pause time? In userland I consider anything above maybe 1 or 2 milliseconds to be a long pause time. The standards only get higher
by throwaway684936 5y ago
What do you consider a long pause time?
In userland I consider anything above maybe 1 or 2 milliseconds to be a long pause time. The standards only get higher when it's something like a kernel.
A kernel with even a 0.2ms pause time can be unacceptable when working with ultra low-latency audio for example.
- throwaway894345 5y agoThe criticisms I've heard typically reference pause times in the tens or hundreds of milliseconds. Agreed that different domains and applications have different requirements for pause times. I would be very interested to see histograms of pause times for different GCs, but I'm pretty sure the specific results would vary a lot depending on the specific corpus of applications under benchmark. If your 99%-ile pause time is tens of microseconds, is that good enough for video games? Audio kernels?