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   On 24/03/2024 11:13, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
      
   > However on trawling the internet I discovered a conversation  with   
   > someone else *on here* (c.s.r-pi) last year, who was finding that   
   > *sleep_us(x)* was highly inconsistent for certain (small) values of x.   
   > Sometimes taking a day to end.   
   >   
   > Further investigation reveals that in fact it really is a 'sleep' with   
   > the processor being put in low power mode and requiring an interrupt to   
   > 'wake it up'.   
   >   
      
   Why not use threads/timers, wait on a lock/semaphore rather than sleep.   
      
   But looking at PICO code samples, they commonly use sleep, so I'd be   
   surprised if it was that bad.   
      
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