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Indeed. This is just about user interfaces driven by remote events.

There are patterns for "real time". Things such as:

- What matters is the slowest case, not the average case.

- What has to be real time, and what can run in background?

- Avoiding priority inversions.

- Is there a stall timer that trips if you miss the control loop timing? What happens when the stall timer trips?

- What influence do caches have on time repeatability? What's the worst case? Can you keep the worst case from being the nothing-in-cache case?



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