Dear Reinhard Meyer,
In message 4DE47EA1.1090100@emk-elektronik.de you wrote:
All you can throw into the timer discussion is critics and pointless remarks, but I miss any productive input from you except sometimes pointing out how powerpc does it.
Thanks you very much.
We DO have most of the tick based functions in the current API...
There are a number of good reasons NOT to use ticks on the external API level. They have been explained before. Go and re-read the archived.
And as it seems, the current ms based API is a Pandora's box of problems:
- granularity problems in some hardware
- early timeouts that need complicated solutions inside the loop
- complicated algorithms to convert a natural, non-ms tick into ms values
All this would go if the timer would be left in natural ticks of the hardware and simple helper functions be used to convert to and from that to ms, if so desired:
You obviously ignore a lof things here. I will not repeat all the stuff again for you. Go and re-read the thread.
Perhaps just too simple and too brilliant...
It's a shame others don't agree blindly, isn't it?
Wolfgang Denk