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From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Barrelfish
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:05:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60910150805q2ea3f682w688299a39274051c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4d8fa40910150611v1293b986if62e7520586cecb8@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:11 AM, hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com> wrote:

> > There is a vast range of applications that cannot
> > be managed in real time using existing single-core technology.
>
> I'm sorry to interrupt your discussion, but what is real time?
>
>
Real time just means "fast enough to work properly".  You can throw all
kinds of other crap on top of that and say things about scheduling
requirements and timeslices within which a process must complete, and duty
cycles, but those are just things to look at to figure out if your system is
"fast enough to work properly"

Dave

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-15 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-14 19:09 Tim Newsham
2009-10-14 19:54 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-10-14 21:21   ` Tim Newsham
2009-10-14 21:33     ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2009-10-14 21:42       ` Noah Evans
2009-10-14 21:45         ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-14 21:57           ` Noah Evans
2009-10-14 22:10         ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-10-14 22:21           ` Noah Evans
2009-10-15  1:03     ` David Leimbach
2009-10-15  1:50     ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-10-15  2:12       ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-10-15 10:53       ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-15 11:50         ` Richard Miller
2009-10-15 12:00           ` W B Hacker
2009-10-16 17:03           ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-16 18:17             ` ron minnich
2009-10-16 18:39               ` Wes Kussmaul
2009-10-17 12:42             ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-10-15 11:56         ` Josh Wood
2009-10-15 13:11         ` hiro
2009-10-15 15:05           ` David Leimbach [this message]
2009-10-18  1:15         ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-10-18  3:15           ` Bakul Shah
     [not found]             ` <e763acc10910180606q1312ff7cw9a465d6af39c0fbe@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-18 13:22               ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-10-18 19:18                 ` Bakul Shah
2009-10-18 20:12                   ` ron minnich
2009-10-20  0:04                     ` [9fans] Parallelism is over a barrel(fish)? Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2009-10-20  1:11                       ` W B Hacker
2009-10-14 21:36   ` [9fans] Barrelfish Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-10-15  2:05     ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-10-15  2:17       ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-10-15  3:32         ` Tim Newsham
2009-10-15  3:59           ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-10-15 17:39             ` Tim Newsham
2009-10-15 18:28 ` Christopher Nielsen
2009-10-15 18:55   ` W B Hacker
     [not found] <<20091015105328.GA18947@nipl.net>
2009-10-15 13:27 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-15 13:40   ` Richard Miller
2009-10-16 17:20   ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-16 18:18     ` Latchesar Ionkov
2009-10-19 15:26       ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-19 15:33         ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-10-19 15:50         ` ron minnich
2009-10-16 21:17     ` Jason Catena
2009-10-17 20:58       ` Dave Eckhardt
2009-10-18  2:09         ` Jason Catena
2009-10-18 16:02           ` Dave Eckhardt
2009-10-17 18:45   ` Eris Discordia
2009-10-17 21:07     ` Steve Simon
2009-10-17 21:18       ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-10-18  8:48         ` Eris Discordia
2009-10-18  8:44       ` Eris Discordia
2009-10-19 15:57     ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-19 16:03       ` ron minnich
2009-10-19 16:46       ` Russ Cox
2009-10-20  2:16       ` matt
2009-10-20  9:15         ` Steve Simon
2009-10-21 15:43         ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-21 16:11           ` Russ Cox
2009-10-21 16:37             ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-21 18:01           ` ron minnich
2009-10-28 15:37           ` matt
     [not found]   ` <A90043D02D52B2CBF2804FA4@192.168.1.2>
2009-10-18  0:06     ` ron minnich
2009-10-18  0:54       ` Roman Shaposhnik
     [not found] <<207092dc429fe476c2046d537aeaa400@hamnavoe.com>
2009-10-15 13:52 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-15 15:07   ` David Leimbach
2009-10-15 15:21     ` roger peppe
2009-10-16 17:21       ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-16 23:39         ` Nick LaForge
2009-10-18  1:12         ` Roman Shaposhnik
2009-10-19 14:14           ` matt
2009-10-19 16:00           ` Sam Watkins
     [not found] <<4AD70EE9.1010208@conducive.org>
2009-10-15 13:52 ` erik quanstrom
     [not found] <<3e1162e60910150805q2ea3f682w688299a39274051c@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-15 15:28 ` erik quanstrom
     [not found] <<20091016172030.GB3135@nipl.net>
2009-10-16 18:34 ` erik quanstrom
     [not found] <<d50d7d460910161417w45b5c675p8740315aaf6861f@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-16 22:25 ` erik quanstrom
     [not found] <<20091018031508.717CE5B30@mail.bitblocks.com>
2009-10-19 13:44 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-19 14:36   ` David Leimbach
     [not found] <<20091019155738.GB13857@nipl.net>
2009-10-19 16:05 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-19 16:34   ` Sam Watkins
2009-10-19 17:30     ` ron minnich
2009-10-19 17:57       ` W B Hacker
2009-10-19 18:14       ` David Leimbach
     [not found] <<4ADC7439.3060502@maht0x0r.net>
2009-10-19 16:13 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-19 18:23   ` tlaronde
2009-10-20  1:38   ` matt
2009-10-20  1:58     ` Eris Discordia
2009-10-20  2:17       ` matt
     [not found] <<20091019182352.GA1688@polynum.com>
2009-10-19 18:48 ` erik quanstrom
     [not found] <<4ADD147A.4090801@maht0x0r.net>
2009-10-20  2:11 ` erik quanstrom
2009-10-20  2:33   ` matt

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