On Sunday, 23 March 2014 at 17:35:37 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:malloc/free cannot be used in hard real time systems, either. malloc/free do not have latency guarantees.While that is true you can have a soft real time thread feeding the hard real time thread with new configurations and the associated preallocated buffers using a lock-free queue.
Yes, and you can do that with GC, too.