Re: MEMORY QUESTION

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From: Dave Korn
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:24

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David Schwartz wrote in message <3A66BFA0.18F71B8@webmaster.com>...
>
>Dave Korn wrote:
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>>   Plenty of realtime applications have tight latencies and slowing down
all
>> their operations by a significant amount means that the system will
behave
>> in entirely different ways or fail altogether.  The usual example to
quote
>> at this point would be image analysis software in a missile guidance
>> system...
>
> If you're debugging a system like that for memory leaks, 99% chance
>your input and output are going to and from a simulator. I don't think
>you'd put a memory-leak detector onboard a missle. You'd have to get its
>final analysis off the missile pretty quickly. ;)

  Black box flight recorder! Black box flight recorder!

       DaveK
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