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Subject: Re: STM32F4 Discovery, communication and libraries
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On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 12:17:03 PM UTC-7, Roy Emmerich wrote:
>The other fear I've always had about an RTOS is power management and wheth=
er it would be efficient enough for me needs.=20
>=20
Do you even need tasking?  You can run a non-tasking Ada runtime and still =
get all the benefits of writing that code in Ada.  For low power you could =
wake up on a timer or other event, do whatever work you need to do, then go=
 back to sleep.  Just the way you'd do it in C without an RTOS.