gen_fsm:send_after | start_timer

[Francesco Cesarini]

Hi,
I do not have a decent work environment to do any tests right, but I believe
that an attempt at cleaning up the timer module has been made. The design rule
in the AXD is from 1996, and a lot has changed since then. I do not think the
ban is in the updated design rules.

I notice that the timers are still inserted in lists using insertion sort, so if
timing is still a problem (How many timers will you have running at any one
time?), I would personally rewrite the timer module instead of complicating the
FSMs.

Cheers,
Francesco
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Sean Hinde wrote:

> > Hi Sean,
> > why don't you use timer:apply_after/4 and create your own
> > timeout events?
>
> Mainly because timer:apply_after/4 is implemented in a pretty unbelievably
> degenerate way if there are more than a small number of timers running. I
> remember reading that use of timer module is banned in AXD for this reason.
>
> - Sean
>
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