[nine_k]

I suppose what is slow directly depends on the hardware. On a 10 MHz CPU, 8 ms = 80k clocks, which is not necessarily easy to hit consistently, because of critical sections and scheduling overhead. On a 2 GHz CPU, 8 ms can as well be the normal slice of the scheduler.

I suppose the CPU on this machine may be severely underclocked because of the power requirements.

[edrxty]

My question isn't really in response to the specifications of the rover but rather the inaccuracy of the above statements.