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There's a bunch of them, but you'd never want to run hard realtime on a phone or tablet. Hard realtime gives you horrible performance, but excellent latency guarantees. One big thing they do in hard realtime systems is to disable the CPU cache, because caching prevents determinism. It's also essential for performance, but in a hard realtime system performance isn't important.


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