[Lazarus] nonlcl basic issue: is codetools LCL dependent?

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:30:05 +0200
Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:

> On 06/23/2014 12:37 PM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > Are you sure you need Epiktimer and hardware ticks for TTimer? That 
> > sounds like overkill.
> Using a hardware timer in user-space yields the lowest possible overhead 
> (preventing unnecessary user-space/system-space mode-switches).

A TTimer does not need the "lowest possible overhead".
The TTimer in GUI has to fight with a lot more overhead. No one expects
TTimer to be millisecond exact.
Therefore the nogui widget only needs a decent TTimer, preferably with
no extra dependencies like EpikTimer and no calibration.


Mattias