On Monday 11 July 2011 23:15:26 Tim E. Real wrote: > On July 11, 2011 04:50:06 pm Chris Cannam wrote: > > I know taking locks in a RT process is deeply frowned upon > > Likely been answered before, but good time for me to ask: > What is the reason it is not recommended? > Is it simply because of a long time involved in acquiring the lock, or is > it because the lock might block some other Jack thread from running? > The same reason why other things like 'malloc' or 'new' are not > recommended either?
Real-time means "as fast as possible". Waiting to acquire a lock isn't exactly what you would call "fast"... Waiting for a lock is the same as waiting for the kernels/OSs memory managment to allocate some space. Have fun, Arnold
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