bsiever / pxt-fastloops

Faster infinite loops

Fast Forever Loop

This extension provides a forver loop that can repeat faster than the normal forever loop.

Forver

fastForever.fastForever(handler: handler: () => void) : void

A fast forever loop. Top frequency is about 250Hz on the micro:bit V2, which is 5 time faster than the 50Hz of the regular forever loop.

Faster Forever

fastForver.fasterForever(time: number, handler: () => void) : void

A faster forever loop. Top frequency is about 150kHz on the micro:bit V2, which is 3,000 time faster than the 50Hz of the regular forever loop. The number indicates how long (in milliseconds) between official pauses, which are needed to allow other tasks to run.

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Starves all other code

This loop can "starve" out all other code, including the fastForever and vital system tasks.

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Acknowledgements

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Misc.

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Supported targets

for PXT/microbit

pxt-fastloops=github:bsiever/pxt-fastloops

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