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by _old_dude_ 1009 days ago
Or a nuclear power plant

https://www.quora.com/The-license-agreement-of-Java-says-You...

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There actually are special, hard real-time JVMs that are used in missile defense systems. Do note that hard real time is not about performance (and as computers are so fast, you really don’t need much time for millions of calculations), but the guarantee of executing it in X time. But it does require very special engineering.