Reputation: 4479
The BlackBerry API documentation for the Timer class says:
This class does not offer real-time guarantees: it schedules tasks using the Object.wait(long) method.
What does this mean?
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Reputation: 11876
It means when you schedule a timer task, the task will start executing no sooner than the requested start time, but could start later, and the amount of time later has no bound.
A real-time guarantee would give a bound on the maximum amount of time that elapses before execution starts.
Upvotes: 1