... ). Another important term is interrupting latency, the delay between a hardware interrupt and the start of the actual processing of the interrupt. "For some, this is a key benchmark since this sets a limit on the responsiveness of a device to outside events. A core goal for Windows CE 3.0 is to provide an interrupt latency response time of 50 ms on Windows CE running on a 166 ... means that the Windows CE kernel is quite a bit simpler than the multiprocessor-ready Windows NT and Windows 2000 kernel- (Herrera). The downside to a simple kernel is that you cannot speed up the execution of a...

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