[gclist] Another request from a Newbie :-)

[Fahad G.]

Hi,

Like you mentioned, there are in fact a few papers available on the
subject and some ideas and solutions have been proposed. However this
matter remains un-tackled in that, (almost all) practitioners deny
(sometimes completely) the idea of garbage collection being introduced
in a hard real-time system. Some say it's ridiculous and some say it's
impossible (i.e garbage-collection introduces unpredictability into the
system which is a no-no in a hard real-time environment). Anyways, the
point is that you can most certainly choose this topic and maybe try
convincing the world that there really *is* a way you could introduce
garbage collection into hard real-time systems.

regards,

Fahad

  
> Hi all,
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> Thanks for the insightful help the last time around, I did de-rail once
> the topic somehow went into finalizers. ;-)
> 
> I have another question, I have done a bit of reading and I want to
> write a research report on the following topic. If someone let me know
> if this is a topic worth working on for a school report?, or has it been
> beaten to death? Surprisingly few papers are avbl for this on ACM and
> those thieves IEEE (j/k). My topic is
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> "Is there a systematic method by which one can evaluate and select a
> garbage collection algorithm for a hard-real-time system?"
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> I would love to hear your thoughts on this matter, all the experts
> around here. I am really getting interested in GC and would appreciate
> all/any help.
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> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ravi Jonnalagedda