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Re: Worried about high CPU usage in CRIO
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Originally Posted by DominickC View Post
I did not intend for my loops to be blocking (at least not in this situation). How could I write a value (such as a motor output) then rewrite a value 500ms later without it becoming a blocking loop?
blocking and busy waiting (spinning) jargon explained:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_waiting

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc...=rep1&type=pdf


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