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On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:04:33 -0500, c186282 wrote:

>    Interrupts are very important for buttons and some sensors !
>    Otherwise you have to waste vast CPU *polling*.

It all depends. Interrupts add complexity. For many applications the CPU 
doesn't have anything better to do than poll.