[Lazarus] EpikTimer v1.0.1 released

[Michael Schnell]

On 05/29/2014 05:47 AM, Tom Lisjac wrote:
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> I'm having a little trouble understanding where new functionality is 
> needed for your use case.

Of course you are right that I don't exactly need it. In my source code 
I use a {§ifdef to decide whether or not to create an instance (my 
current source of epiktimer.pas allows for both, I just added the code 
that allows for statistically using the class functions).

OTOH, the discussion in the fpc-pascal mailing list shows that the low 
level / arch dependent stuff should be removed from epiktimer.pas and 
moved into a new file that at best would finally be integrated in the 
rtl. My ActiveNoGUI stuff will just call this basic function(s) and 
hence be independent of epiktimer.pas. I will offer a version of 
epiktimer.pas plus an additional low level file using vDSO in Linux) as 
soon as I find the time to do some testing. This will not break anything !

> With the existing code, you don't need to create an EpikTimer instance 
> each time you need a new timer.

In fact I don't need any "timer" at all. I just need to read a reliable 
(not to be modified behind our back as GetTimeOfDay) time counter that 
can be read with as little overhead  as possible. And finally this 
should be available for all archs and done by an arch independent call 
and (this is why a am greatly interested in "EpikTimer" be used as 
broadly as possible, so that it hopefully is well supported in future.

-Michael