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		zzalpha on June 20, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7 J2ME is nowhere near being hard real-time. ...and? Believe it or not, not every embedded application has a hard real-time requirement. You're just moving the OP's goalposts to make a point, here.

HeyLaughingBoy on June 20, 2017 [–]

No, he's making the point that the latency introduced by a GC is most important in the case of a hard real-time system. If J2ME isn't one, then using it as an example is specious.

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