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Does DMA halt the CPU or operate in the background?

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Does DMA halt the CPU or operate in the background?

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DMA halts the CPU until completion. This would seem a tremendous disadvantage and it probably is in some cases. However, DMA can still be fast enough, in some cases, to be more efficient than using other methods of data transfer.

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