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Re:GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7 by gok on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:03PM (#14591303)
Sure, though they generally achieve that by running on big iron, with lots of spare CPU and memory, and running a lot of big exotic software. That is, environments with the opposite of where you'd generally want to deploy any code bare metal.
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Re:GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7 by bitmapbrother on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:09PM (#14591336)
Not necessarily. These real time JVM's are more for embedded systems.
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Re:GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7 by solidsnack9000 on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:48PM (#14591487)
Which ones?
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Re:GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7 by pjmlp on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @12:39AM (#14592241)
Aonix for example.

Heavily used by the military, including weapons control systems.

Another well known ones are IBM WebSphere RealTime and JamaicaVM.

Also companies like Gemalto, Ricoh, Cisco have JVMs on their devices, but not real time.

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Re:GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7 by jononor on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @07:22AM (#14593625)
Is this what is now PTC Perc? Don't see much references to Aonix after 2010.
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Re:GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7 by nickpsecurity on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @02:07PM (#14596983)
The Aonix data on their website was very useful. It proved most of our points. That's why we reference it. Still available through archive.org. Although, just checking, I find a lot of the good links are dead on the times I tried. Uh oh.

I did find an announcement:

http://www.atego.com/pressreleases/pressitem/java-developers...

In the Aonix design, there is no GC on the hard-real-time threads or portions of the heap. Those are usually done statically anyway for max predictability. The GC can apply to anything else with it preempted by real-time threads when necessary. It was usually tied into a RTOS like LynuxWork's (now Lynx).

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Re:GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7 by pjmlp on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @07:52AM (#14593791)
Yes they were bought by PTC.

I still refer to Aonix, because they were more developer friendly, had more information on their website than the few whitepapers from PTC and the web site is still partially up.

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