On Jan 12, 2005, at 10:08 AM, Victor Emanuel wrote:

hi all,


� I would like to know why interrupts caused by instructions ( software ) cost more than by hardware signals in TinyOS.
�� So the doubt are generated because both of them spent time to save the registers.


The hardware cost is the actual issuing of the interrupt (e.g., storing the PC, etc.). The software cost is spilling registers.


Phil

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