Task_tick: This function is mostly called from time tick functions; it might lead to process switch.

task_tick：该函数通常调用自time tick函数；它可能引起进程切换。

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In most RTOS, the timer interrupt service routine (ISR) executes at every time tick.

在一般的嵌入式实时操作系统中，时钟中断服务程序在每个时钟节拍工作。

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In most practical application, context switch doesn't happen at some time tick, so sometime the execution of timer ISR is useless and wastes CPU time.

在实际应用中，并不是每个时钟节拍都有任务调度，所以有很多时钟中断服务程序的工作是多余的，浪费了CPU资源。

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If you threatened to dock us for showing up late or for incorrectly completing a form, we'd arrive on time and tick every box.

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This was before the days of my development of computer algorithms to analyze the tick data in real time to alert me.

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