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by mike_hearn 3441 days ago
I think the assumption is that, as ntpsec is "soft real time" i.e. not hard real time, sufficiently low pauses mean you wouldn't need to lock out the GC at all.

I mean, technically anything the system or runtime does on your behalf can be thought of as a 'pause'. What if you lose your timeslice half way through a function?