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Is it possible to do real time programming in a garbage collected language?

HeyLaughingBoy on Feb 22, 2016 | [–]

Sure. What latency do you need?

theatrus2 on Feb 22, 2016 | [–]

If you don't have any cycles (and disable mark/sweep), Python's reference counting will be deterministic. However, I doubt this implementation will be able to offer real-time capability :)

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