red flags for me
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| jimf May 30, 2006 7:02 AM EDT |
> the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ) **requires** that the JVM provide class functions which provide direct access to physical memory; all physical memory. Now, I'm not a programmer, but I am an Engineer, and this puts up all sorts of red flags for me. TAINT flag be damned, why was this ever a part of Java, and since it is, why do we want to use Java? Java is beginning to sound like less and less of a deal. |
| tuxchick2 May 30, 2006 7:07 AM EDT |
This does sound bizarre. I thought we left that sort of thing behind with the tired corpse of MS-DOS. |
| number6x May 31, 2006 4:19 AM EDT |
Real-Time specification, not normal every day Java, or even enterprise Java. This is a spec for java that would be used for real time stuff like as a timing system in a laboratory. Waiting for the OS to get around to allocating resources to a program is not an option in real-time systems. Of course in Real-Life there are very few systems that need Real-Time. For those, running in user-space (and consequently user-time) is just fine. This is a red flag, but real-time systems are only used when the benefits of quick memory access outweigh the drawbacks of trashing memory. Regular Java runs in a memory protected 'sandbox' |
| jimf May 31, 2006 5:28 AM EDT |
Thanks for clarifying that number6x. |
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