May 2020
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
13h 54m
English
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Wasting cycles – synchronization by polling
The following example has the exact same behavior as when we're looking at LEDs from the outside of the board – the observable pattern of the LEDs is exactly the same as the previous example. The difference is how much CPU time is being used by continuously reading the same variable.