Exactly! So many tricks pulled off with a microcontroller require carefully timed hand-coded assembly loops, Chip Gracey managed to preserve that ever so usefu

Exactly! So many tricks pulled off with a microcontroller require carefully timed hand-coded assembly loops, Chip Gracey managed to preserve that ever so useful fallback mode of microcontroller development while enabling multi-core applications. And as a result many of those carefully hand timed software blocks are now available for download and reuse. On single core microcontrollers, all that carefully timed assembly ends up interleaved with other logic in ways that make it nearly impossible to untangle for reuse.