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Hi again,
i would like to know which is more efficient in code? having a while loop
which is checking for a condition to be true and sleeping for an arbitary value
while it is not, or using a wait_event statement passing a function pointer to
a method which checks for the same condition?
thanks for all the help so far
regards ross
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| (...) value (...) Ross, I can't speak about efficiency - I dont know enogh about embedded programming, but I've had better results using wait_event. I've tried both msleep() and yield() in a loop, and just calling wait_event with a function that (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) value (...) There are two issues: 1 do you want to do anything while waiting, 2 how quick do you want to respond to the event. In both cases using an event is better. You can do something else until the event happens (synchronization issuses (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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