Re: GC in embedded systems (was Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime)

[Sengan]

> On Fri 11 Aug, Byron Hale wrote:
> > Also, garbage collection is unlikely to satisfy any need
> > for automatic memory management in real-time systems for the foreseeable
> > future because an extra thread on a single processor is still
> > non-deterministic.

I don't buy this: for a long time the embedded hard realtime people
refused to use CPUs with cache because they would be
"non-deterministic".
They finally gave up, realizing that CPU's with caches are much faster.
If garbage collection is relatively cheap and makes it 10x faster to
make
a reliable system, they'll end up using it too. Non deterministic is not
that important. Worst time is.

Sengan