Re: [Flashforth-devel] building larger program words -- arduino mega2560 FF5

[Mikael N. <mik...@fl...>]

Craig, 

FF used to have a long first millisecond. As do many other Forths. 

But then there was a complaint ( by Stefan I think) that 

: test ticks 100 for 1 ms next ticks swap - . ; 

took 200 ms. So I changed the first millisecond to be short. 

Maybe a long first millisecond is actually better, at least you are
guaranteed 1 millisecond. 

BR Mikael 

On 2021-04-06 15:39, craig bair via Flashforth-devel wrote:

> Hi Mikael,
> Just a note that I'm not used to getting short 1 millisecond times. GCC (and my own timing routines) synchronize on the first ms tick and start decrementing on the next one so they run a long 1 millisecond instead. Not a problem once noticed, but curse-me-for-a-novice for not paying attention to details (grin).