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How clever is the multitasking in IC? If I have a task that I only want to run
ever 10 seconds, can I just put a sleep statement at the top of the routine?
Will the sleep statement chew up processor cycles, or will IC realize that it
should defer to the next task until the sleep time is over?
-Scott Harris
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| In my reading of it, it will just chew the cycles. Here is the routine msleep(), used to implement sleep. See how it just does a busy wait? I wrote a version (now gone into data heaven when my drive crashed) that would check the time, and then give (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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