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Firebase is true realtime. No polling. No waiting for disk I/O. We are trying to produce the absolute lowest latency possible.
by mayop100 15y ago
Firebase is true realtime. No polling. No waiting for disk I/O. We are trying to produce the absolute lowest latency possible.
- defen 15y agoTraditionally "real-time" in the context of computing means responding to events within a guaranteed time interval, usually milliseconds or microseconds.
- lucian1900 15y agoFirebase is nothing like a real-time [1] system! That's precisely the kind of stupid dilution my comment was complaining about. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing