Replacing C

[Eric S. Raymond]

Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be>:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 02:12:21PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be>:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > OK, fair point.
> > 
> > The rule in my head has been that for whatever jitter maximum we want
> > to hit, we need the the 95th-percentile value of the stop-the-world
> > bound to to be an order of magnitude below that.
> 
> I guess it depends on how often this stop-the-world thing happens.
> If it happens every packet 100 us is probably too much, if it
> happens every 1000 packets it's probably acceptable.

Not going to happen anywhere near every packet.  If Go were that thrashy
it wouldn't be usable where Google has it deployed.
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