Performance of a general-purpose real-time executive
Real-time operating systems

Defining evaluation criteria for market executives is tricky because of :

• product diversity ;

• the semantics of the objects they manipulate;

• their field of application;

• their development environment...

As part of the standardization process, POSIX nevertheless provides an answer to this problem by establishing metrics applicable to standard executables.

For generalist executives, there are nevertheless a few typical measures (