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(...) I stop a thread the manual way: #define STOP_OTHER_THREAD() \ set bOtherThreadEnable, FALSE dseg segment bOtherThreadEnable byte TRUE ends thread main start OtherThread // John's great invention //... STOP_OTHER_THREAD() // ... endt thread (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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I don't know how the NXT-G thread/task scheduler works. Just wondering if anyone has any idea on the impact on execution performance when multiple threads are running? And how often threads are scheduled? For example, if you have a "main" thread (...) (18 years ago, 31-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) I'm sure someone with some firmware knowledge will have a better answer for this, but my belief is that there are no smarts in the firmware for swapping threads during a wait - i.e. I bet it uses a full timeslice. I have done some BT logging (...) (18 years ago, 31-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Just to clarify, NXT-G doesn't have a thread scheduler. NXT-G is a just a graphical programming language, not a firmware or a virtual machine. The standard NXT firwmare implements a virtual machine which has a thread scheduler. The name of the (...) (18 years ago, 31-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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