Benefits of "Periodic Tasks VI"?

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Originally Posted by CRLS97

In our teams code the bulk of our code is in Periodic Tasks.vi However in our Teleop.vi code I'm having the robot read a digital input and a global data so we have a couple different ways of controlling the robot. Could this be causing our -44601 error? I can actually notice a significant lag (like half a second) between a joystick movement and the robot movement and it's somewhat annoying while we're testing. I even tried having both periodic tasks and vision disabled and the error remained...

I can't give an example in LabVIEW because I don't have it installed here, but here's a skeletal pseudo-C code:

while (1) {

if (!run_me) {sleep(20ms); continue;}

run_me= false;

doSomething;

sleep(250ms);

doSomethingElse;
}

The global boolean "run_me" tells the task to run once.

Notice the "sleep(20ms)" which prevents the task from chewing up an undue amount of CPU time.