You wrote: >i don't think there is a need for all those variants. why would alarm >need any special opcode when it is just a timer with a delay of abs_time >- NOW? let the coder handle that and lose the extra op codes.
No, you don't want to do it that way. Becasue you want to make the latency between getting the abs_time, doing the substract and actually setting up the time as small, as possible you almost have to do this operation as a builtin op. In fact you can argue that you want to lock out async events while doing it as well. -- Mark Biggar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
