tickless
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Lacking ticks (the insect).
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Our suddenly tickless dog, now quite ticked-off, doesn't know who to kill first but by the time he rolls over, jaws snapping, the surgeons are practicing in the next county.
Without a ticking sound.
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Maybe with the new technology, they might have tickless bombs. They've had tickless clocks for years. And they even have seedless watermelons. So a tickless bomb should be routine.
Having interrupts occur only when required, rather than at regular intervals.
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a tickless kernel; a tickless scheduler