[fpc-devel] TTimers and TThreads. Attn Michael Schnell

[Michael Schnell]

On 06/27/2014 08:01 PM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
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> I don't see an advantage with using relative times, or unsorted lists.
> On insertion a binary search over the list can be made, when the entries
> are sorted by absolute time. Removal of entries occurs always from the
> list head.
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Relative Timers supposedly indeed are prone to running out of sync. So I 
don't do that.

I need to find the lowest

With an average count of - say - three timers in a usual project, I 
don't suppose that keeping an ordered list (by removing and - after 
doing a binary search - re-inserting an entry) is less efficient than 
maintaining the order of the TTimers in the array and do a linear 
searching for the lowest next timeout value.

-Michael