Subject: Re: How fast can lisp go?
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: 2000/07/12
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3172424339277270@naggum.net>

* "Fernando Rodríguez" <f...@mindless.com>
| It would be interesting if someone with greater experience could explain
| how to handle the GC delay in this sort of realtime applications... O:-)

  Well, suppose you have a stream that produces about 50 M/s, your
  maximal GC delay is 100 ms, and your processing ability is above 50
  M/s, you can set up output buffers of about 5 M, which you would
  fill before starting actual output and which would drain during GC,
  coupled with an input buffer that would fill up during GC and be
  drained faster than new input is filling it.

  Nobody would ever notice any GC pauses.  All you would see is 100 ms
  processing latency without any reduction in bandwidth.

  If you can control the input bandwidth and read and process faster
  than you need to output, your application would block on output and
  you wouldn't need to worry about GC pauses at all if you set up big
  enough output buffers.

  The key is really to have faster-than-real-time processing power.

#:Erik
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