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Re: threads - bug in the firmware?
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Date: 
Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:49:11 GMT
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Hi Ross

Note also since bumper_task() is an infinite loop, and you never use pid1, • you
could save one thread by doing this:

What are the advantages and disadvantages of
this method as opposed to the one I used?

mike



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  Re: threads - bug in the firmware?
 
(...) Advantage: Less memory used (each thread needs a block of memory in the kernel, I'm at work & can't remember the struct name off hand). In the case under discussion, this doesn't make much difference, but in a large project, memory use can (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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  Re: threads - bug in the firmware?
 
(...) Note also since bumper_task() is an infinite loop, and you never use pid1, you could save one thread by doing this: int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { pid2 = execi (&left_task, 0, NULL, PRIO_NORMAL+2, DEFAULT_STACK_SIZE); pid3 = execi (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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