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> What if you press and hold, say, Ctrl during delay()? Will tha make delay()
> finish up faster?

Yes, what this means?

I tried:

  for(i=0;i<100;i++) // it's OK, exec time 5 seconds
    delay(50);

  for(i=0;i<1000;i++) // this takes about 50 seconds, when holding CTRL
it drops to ~30s
    delay(5);

It seems like delay timer uses 55ms granularity instead 1ms like
before...