1Real-Time for the Rest of Us
“Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.”
—Roger Babson
THERE are many misunderstandings about what real-time is, even amongst seasoned enterprise Java developers. Some confuse it with high-performance, or fast, computing; others think of dynamic applications such as instant messaging. Neither one is necessarily an example of a real-time system. Therefore real-time does not always equal “real fast,” although good performance is often desirable and achievable. In fact, real-time is often orthogonal with high-throughput systems; there’s a trade-off in throughput in many cases. The best way to avoid all of this confusion is to think of it this way: application performance and throughput requirements ...
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