Re: Query about monitor (passive) task optimization

[eachus@mitre-bedford.arpa (Robert I. Eachus)]

In article <244ktf$61@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wri
tes:

  > The question is: are there applications which use tasking, and are
  > basically interested in overall speed throughput, rather than
  > simply that tasks meet their deadlines. Well certainly one can
  > construct examples, but I suspect that in real life such examples
  > are few and far between.

    Actually, I do know of one major exception, but it only reinforces
Robert Dewar's case.  At MITRE (and at some government contractors)
there is a major need for simulating systems to determine that the
real-time requirements are met.  Since the simulation uses a simulated
clock, and the simulations often run much slower than real-time,
anything which speeds the simulation up would be useful.

    Since the people doing the simulations are exactly those who care
the most for PREDICTABLE behavior in the real system, don't expect us
to ask for automatic reorderings.
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					Robert I. Eachus

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