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by HeyLaughingBoy 3705 days ago
Don't do this on medical equipment

That's funny because I was coming here to say that I built a real-time system running on Windows... for a medical instrument. Windows was fine because speed didn't matter, predictability did, and our latencies were measures in hundreds of milliseconds and Windows has no problem keeping up with that. The only time I saw CPU usage go above 1% was when the instrument was shutting down and had to clean up a lot of objects.