Tiny delay in digitalWrite causing some timing issues

[magician13134]

Hello everyone, I'm tweaking some code on a small project that I'm working to try to get it better than it is now. It's very simple, just an ATTiny85 using 5 IO pins to control LEDs. I wrote, compiled and uploaded the code in the Arduino environment so I'm simply using DigitalWrite to control them. However, when I want to flash them all at once, I just do five DigitalWrite commands in a row to turn them all off or all on, but you can actually see the LEDs turning off one by one, it's not quite instantaneous and it irks me. I was just wondering if there was a way to tell all of the pins to turn on or off in one command?

Also, speeding up the clock is not an option, it is a very power-conscious project. Thank you for any help.

[westfw]

If you use direct port writes, you can turn a whole port worth of bits at one time (and on a tiny85, all the pins there are are on a single port...) It would look something like:

PORTB = 0x3F; // set all outputs HIGH.