personal notes about threading

docs/software/TODO.md

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 You probably don't care about this section - skip to the next one.
 
+Threading tasks:
+
+- Use https://github.com/ivanseidel/ArduinoThread? rather than full coroutines 
+- clean up main loop()
+- check that we are mostly asleep, show which thread is causing us to wake
+- 
+- use tickless idle on nrf52, and sleep X msec or until an interrupt occurs or the cooperative scheduling changes. https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/12363/nrf52-freertos-power-consumption-tickless-idle
+- BAD IDEA: use vTaskDelay and https://www.freertos.org/xTaskAbortDelay.html if scheduling changes. (define INCLUDE_xTaskAbortDelay on ESP32 and NRF52 - seems impossible to find?)
+- GOOD IDEA: use xSemaphoreTake to take a semaphore using a timeout.  Expect semaphore to not be set, but set it to indicate scheduling has changed.
+
 Nimble tasks:
 
 - readerror.txt stress test bug