In the mid-2000s (the "oughts?") I went to my doctor at PAMF with a sore throat and he said he would do a strep test.
I asked him if we would get "real time results?"
He stopped, and looked at me puzzled with a tilted head... "What other kind of time is there?"
Your question is highly reasonable, but I heard a colleague today say that the issue could happen only in a very, very short time period of, say, 2-3 minutes. We routinely work with corner cases of 1-2 ms; so the context is relative :-)
"context is relative" made me smile, thinking "PAMF" is Palo Alto Medical Foundation, but why would anyone in general have the context to understand that
I asked him if we would get "real time results?"
He stopped, and looked at me puzzled with a tilted head... "What other kind of time is there?"
Your question is highly reasonable, but I heard a colleague today say that the issue could happen only in a very, very short time period of, say, 2-3 minutes. We routinely work with corner cases of 1-2 ms; so the context is relative :-)