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 "id": "a-garbage-collection-on-an-almost-empty-rp2350",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "A garbage collection on an almost empty RP2350 heap costs 11.6 milliseconds, which is longer than most control loops can afford",
 "symptom": "A loop that is fast on average misses its deadline occasionally and unpredictably, by roughly ten milliseconds, with no correlation to anything in the application logic.",
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 ],
 "intent": "Decide whether MicroPython's garbage collector can live inside a timing-sensitive loop",
 "date": "2026-08-20",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
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  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check"
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}