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Re:Tesla’s SA big battery just got 50% bigger after goals th... by gpm on Saturday July 04, 2020 @10:12PM (#23736169)

My understanding of the terms is that online means it processes streams of data, but not that it is fast enough to keep up with the real world. Realtime means that it is fast enough to keep up with the real world. Realtime seems to be the appropriate term to me.

Do you have a different set of definitions?

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Re:Tesla’s SA big battery just got 50% bigger after goals th... by SEJeff on Sunday July 05, 2020 @12:44AM (#23736650)

Yes this is the correct term. Realtime processing in the operating system context vs the streaming data context are different things.

https://blog.syncsort.com/2015/11/big-data/the-difference-be...

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Re:Tesla’s SA big battery just got 50% bigger after goals th... by nl on Sunday July 05, 2020 @12:41AM (#23736644)

Realtime software often means "hard real time"[1] which is a constraint where a response is guaranteed within a particular time.

This is a fairly specific area where special real-time deterministic operating systems are used etc.

I think your usage was fine, and the pedantic use of "real time" is dying anyway. There's a whole field of "soft real time" which blends into online, and some parts of the battery control SCADA systems may well be true real time anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

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Re:Tesla’s SA big battery just got 50% bigger after goals th... by jeffbee on Sunday July 05, 2020 @01:38AM (#23736843)

I was just responding to the definition given. "observes data and makes decisions continuously" is not a proper expansion of "real-time".

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