[fpc-pascal] Efficient millisecond timestamp

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2014, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
>>> And I hardly see the point of converting something coming from the 
>>> hardware and/or a kernel counter to a double and then back to a quadword.
>> 
>> Nevertheless, Now() is the only portable construct available. Multiply it 
>> with msecsperday and round to int64 if you need an integer value.
>
> What about non-portable, e.g. unix-only? I don't see anything obvious in the 
> BaseUnix documentation.

That's because there is nothing. 
Most platforms support get_clock() but in FPC this is linux-only, as far as I know.

> I'm sure there's something in EpikTimer I could use, but I'm trying to keep 
> things fairly lean.

Last time I looked, EpikTimer used Now() on Unixes, 
definitely if you were not on intel platforms. 
But maybe the situation has improved meanwhile, you would need to check the code.

Michael.