Realtime capabilities?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <9o8033$mhf$04$1 at news.t-online.com>, Ben  <ben at xyz.net> wrote:
>
>some of you have probably heard (or even used) Erlang (www.erlang.org) --- 
>a functional programming language which is executed by a virtual machine. 
>One interesting property of this VM is guaranteed soft realtime execution 
>of the Erlang processes.
>
>My question is whether it is possible to add (soft) realtime capabilities 
>to the Python VM with reasonable effort? I'm just curious and not being an 
>expert of any of the existing Python implementations I thought some of you 
>might have a better understanding of this issue and can comment on this?

I don't know what Erlang means by "guaranteed".  I also don't know what
OS Erlang runs on that such a guarantee can be made; it's certainly not
possible on Win9x, for example.  So if you say more about what
"guaranteed" means, I can probably give you some useful info about
Python.
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