Replacing C

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 09:48:09AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> On the other hand, I don't consider requiring a runtime to be an
> *intrinsic* disqualifier.  The real question is, in my view, the
> 95th-percentile length of latency-inducing stop-the-world stalls.
> If it's below 100 microseconds that is almost certainly good enough.

I guess this is my biggest concern with some of the newer
languages that at least some of them can have large and
unprediticable latencies, and latency is something we do care
about. 100 microseconds seems acceptable for things over the
internet, but I guess I expect better than that for over LAN where
I expect the delay to be in that order.


Kurt