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Nitpicking: arbitrary pauses can occur even without syscalls, when the OS preempts the program. More nitpicking: on x86-64, SMI interrupts can cause arbitrary
by dento 4y ago
Nitpicking: arbitrary pauses can occur even without syscalls, when the OS preempts the program.
More nitpicking: on x86-64, SMI interrupts can cause arbitrary pauses even without any software control involved. Hard realtime on x86-64 is not possible.
- staticassertion 4y agoMore nitpicking: Your computer might turn off, cosmic rays might blow fuck up your RAM/CPU, Capital G God could reach down and pause the system, there's a universal quantum pause every 5.391247 × 10^-44 so that the universe can reboot, etc etc etc Orrrrr, GC pause just means pauses caused by the GC as part of its implementation's work to manage memory.