Powerful and Easy-to-Use Features of the RTSJ
Most of the features of the RTSJ are safe. Any application can benefit from them, and applications that use multiple threads can benefit greatly.
Real-Time Threads
Everything that uses a thread can use a real-time thread, though the program has to contend with the more restricted set of constructors offered for the RealtimeThread class. Real-time threads offer priorities that really work, periodic scheduling, and priority boosting. (Briefly, in case you haven't read Chapter 5, this removes some obnoxious problems from interactions between threads at different priorities.)
Periodic Threads
In its simplest form, without resource limits or miss handlers, a periodic thread runs a piece of code at regular ...
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