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Re:Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from... by verdagon on Friday May 27, 2022 @11:43PM (#31537419)
That's probably acceptable for most use cases.

On Google Earth, even sub-millisecond pauses would have been too much, we had to fight pretty hard for every sliver of performance we could get.

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Re:Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from... by jcelerier on Saturday May 28, 2022 @02:30AM (#31538079)
That's not acceptable in any GUI or multimedia case, which is, by far, what most people do with their computers. Current screens have a 240hz refresh rate, deadline for a frame is 4ms (and more realistically 2-3ms because your program isn't the only one hogging the cpu) ; 1ms GC stall is up to half of your time budget.
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