[skorgu]

IBM's Metronome[1] advertises maximum pause times in the hundreds of microseconds range. Cliff Click[2] cites a 10MB max heap for it so definitely not a cure-all but definitely something I'd like to play around with.

[1]http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/page... [2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL2D3qzHtqY