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Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:23:35 -0500, Vladimir Vassilevsky wrote:
>> The task was a special modem operating via the sound card continuously.
>> It worked fine in Win32/C++, however they wanted to make it platform
>> independent in Java, so they could use the same code in Windows and for
>> the different flavors of Linux. There were problems with the
>> interruptions of the continuous flow of the waveform data depending on
>> the particular JVM and the particular drivers.
>
> That's strange. I could see garbage collection being a problem, but one
> would think that such things have a sufficient buffer to make short
> delays inconsequential. I guess not.

GC is very efficient but had poor real time characteristics.

Often the problems can be resolved by tuning the GC via the many
JVM parameters to do so.

Arne