Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] JJack 0.1 - Java for JACK initial release

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] JJack 0.1 - Java for JACK initial release
From: Jens M Andreasen (jens.andreasen_AT_chello.se)
Date: Fri Jun 04 2004 - 10:47:06 EEST


On fre, 2004-05-28 at 08:47, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:

> i think the question is, how do you program real-time applications
> in java? you'd need to switch off the garbage collector entirely
> when the real-time thread runs, and only activate it when the system
> has cycles to spare. how do you do that?

Apparently turning off the garbage collector is not a valid option. The
idea is instead to have a realtime friendly gc with known maximum
latency. A starting point for the proposed extension can be found here:

 http://www.rtj.org/

.. and here:

 http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~corsaro/jRate/index.html

.. and with a warning for a silly, non realtime, slow loading applet
even here:

 http://tao.doc.wustl.edu/rtj/

mvh // Jens M andreasen


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