If that happens since we weren't checking the ring for emptiness we would loop and spit out the whole ring again. It's cheaper in terms of interrupt latency to just check the ring at interrupt time than it is to futz with ATOMIC_BLOCKs in the ::write code.
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At 115200 we expect ~100us between interrupts, or around 5% CPU overhead. 4us latency is probably acceptable for servo signal jitter too if we decide to consider using the Arduino Servo library.
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