Replacing C

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 07:11:22PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 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.

I had a quick look at some of the stats of my peers over internet,
and most actually seem to have an average jitter in the order of
around 100 microseconds. Some are lower, some are higher. So I'm
not sure how I feel about adding an other 100 to that.


Kurt