Improvements to the GC have been announced at Google I/O. That might do it for "soft" real time, depending on your needs. You can get pretty good results already, assuming proper resource allocation. Sipping and is better than swallowing.
On Jul 9, 11:46 am, jdesbonnet <[email protected]> wrote: > For the applications I have in mind I would be happy with soft real- > time performance. The Linux kernel is frequently used in soft-realtime > applications. The Dalvik garbage collector problem mentioned above is > a good point. > > My thinking is that when/if Android becomes a very popular platform > there may be a plethora of cheap ARM based boards capable of running > Android which might make a great education/hobbyist platform for > electronics, robotics etc. > > On Jul 9, 7:13 pm, David Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dalvik and Android run on top of Linux which does *not* offer real-time > > guarantees at all, so I guess the answer is no. > > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:11 PM, jdesbonnet <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > A question to anyone familiar with the internals of Android / Davlik > > > VM: does it has the potential to be an embedded OS with real time > > > capabilities (eg robot controller, engine computer etc)? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
