Not only medical or space. Just a question of shortest response times. Which depends upon the HW generation. When doing RT-systems on old 16/32-bit systems this was in the range of (fractions of) microseconds. Because of instruction execution times. Which should be shorter nowadays. Besides, such things like "multi-threading, position independent code, reentrant code, spin locks, semaphores, manipulation of mapping registers etc." we had to do ourselves for RT-apps. In asssembler, of course. So, all these functions are a very old "piece of cake", which finally found its path into common programming practices :-) -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/Just-wondering-about-something-tp4660745p4660766.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
