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 Many Tasks - Advantages
• Divides the work – assign priorities
• Modular – Use separate task for each
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 Many Tasks - Disadvantages
• More shared data among two or more tasks
• More semaphore and more semaphore-related
bugs
• Pipes, mailboxes and queues
• Each task requires a stack- More memory for
stack space.
• More - context switching & intercommunication
• Get semaphore - 10 microseconds
• Release semaphore - 6 to 38 microseconds
• Switch task - 17-35 microseconds

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