[fpc-pascal] EpikTimer v1.0.1 released

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Michael Schnell said:
> On 05/28/2014 05:41 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > . But that means you need to use OS timing functions, and not ASM.
> 
> Meaning either syscalls or vDSO.
> 
> As in Linux syscalls do a usermode->Kernelmode->usermode switch, they 
> introduce a huger overhead.

Maybe, but is that relevant? We were talking about precision, not speed.
 
> In Windows I suppose syscalls usually are not done directly by the rtl, 

No. Windows calls kernel32/user32, which then mostly calls nt.dll functions
to do the actual syscalls afaik. And a lot more is userland on Windows.