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are there any CLR implementations that have deterministic garbage collection?
Nondeterministic pauses in the MS CLR GC inhibit .Net from being a suitable environment for real-time development.
Metronome GC and BEA JRockit in Java are two deterministic GC implementations that I’m aware of.
But have there any .Net equivalents?
Thanks
There is no way to make the GC deterministic, expect of course from calling
GC.Collect()exactly every second using a timer ;-).The GC however does contain a notification mechanism (since .NET 3.5 SP1) that allows you to be notified when a gen 2 collect is about to happen. You can read about it here.
The GC now also contains multiple latency modes that make it possible to prevent any GC collects from occurring. Of course you should be very careful with this, but is especially useful for real-time systems. You can read more about it here.