On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Raja Subramanian <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Zico <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am sorry, but, what does it means by "access times are non > deterministic"? > > Pardon me, I don't have any knowledge on Embedded system architecture. :) > > "non deterministic" is CS lingo for unpredictable. Assume you are accessing > a memory address, if it's in physical RAM you can read/write it in a few > nano > seconds. But if the kernel has moved this page to swap it takes > several milliseconds > to access the page and the response time of your application suffers. > [ .... ] Thanks a lot, Raja. :) -- Best, Zico _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
