Idkorlátos

Idkorlátos is a term used in Hungarian-language technical contexts to denote systems, algorithms, or processes that must operate within explicit time constraints. The concept emphasizes bounded execution time and predictable latency, often with deadlines or time budgets that must be respected regardless of input conditions.

Etymology: the word combines idő, meaning time, with korlátos, meaning constrained or limited. The form idkorlátos appears in informal or colloquial usage and may be rendered in longer, more standard Hungarian as időkorlátozott or időkorlátos, depending on the context.

Definition and scope: An idkorlátos system provides guaranteed timing behavior, typically requiring a worst-case execution time bound, a scheduling policy, and a mechanism to abort or defer tasks that overrun. It is related to real-time systems but is often used more informally to describe any processing that must finish within a specified time window, rather than to formal timing guarantees alone.

Domains and examples: Real-time control loops in embedded devices, streaming analytics with strict latency SLAs, time-bounded search or optimization problems, and interactive software that must respond within a fixed deadline can be described as idkorlátos. In design, practitioners specify deadlines, time budgets, and failure-handling strategies as part of idkorlátos requirements.

Relation to other concepts: It overlaps with hard and soft real-time, deterministic computing, and bounded rationality in AI, but is typically used as a practical description of time-constrained behavior rather than a formal discipline.

See also: real-time systems; deadline scheduling; time-bounded computation; deterministic systems.