[fpc-devel] NowUTC in the RTL

[Sven Barth]

Am 09.12.2011 16:58, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
>> Also I personally(!) prefer direct "linkage" to the kernel.
>
> Not always. See e.g. the readdir situation. Limiting the number of syscalls
> drastically speeds up the process.
>
> In Windows you also often call user32, not kernel32.

user32 is the interface to the kernel mode driver win32k which does all 
the hard work regarding the user interface. So it's a basic system 
component like kernel32 is. You can only compare them together to an "OS 
interface library" like libc.

Regards,
Sven