On Sat, 17 May 2014, Tom Lisjac wrote:
Dear Mr. Michael Van Canneyt,
I'm adding some clarification and context to your ongoing comments about
EpikTimer in this and other threads.
<< Snip EpikTimer code>>
>Why you would not use fpnanosleep on CPUX86_64 as well is a mystery to me...
There's no mystery here. I wrote EpikTimer in 2003 with a few months of
experience on a 32 bit version of Lazarus. The code still works, but a lot has
changed around it
over the last 11 years.
> Epiktimer is probably the most overrated component on lazarus-ccr. No idea
why people still recommend it, unless I missed something :(
No mystery here either. You never miss an opportunity to criticize EpikTimer
for reasons I've never been able to understand.
Nevertheless, I have named the reasons explicitly every time.
It is simply frustrating to see that people ask for something cross-platform,
*better than Now()*
for timing, and then epiktimer is recommended. Never fails.
Your component is probably perfectly suited for Intel 32-bit. On other platforms, it simply is not:
there, one might as well use Now() directly, since that is what epiktimer uses.
I realize that my repeated critique sounds harsh; But, please, do not take the
critique personal:
Your part (Intel 32-bit) undoubtedly is good for the job. I have never judged
that.
It is the repeatedly acclaimed support for other platforms that I am having
serious difficulties with.
The day that part is rewritten, you will no longer hear a peep from me.
Before writing, I always check in the hope that someone finally took up the challenge and made it better
than now() on non-i386 platforms. Till now, I was always disappointed.
Several useful suggestions have been made already in the course of this thread.
Maybe someone will finally take up the challenge.
Michael.
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