[Tinyos-host-mote-wg] Re: [Tinyos-2.0wg] Timers in 2.x

[Joe Polastre]

> - I'd like to suggest merging the components which offer the Alarm and
> Counter interfaces (this basically means cutting the number of
> components above by two). We would keep the option of using a hardware
> timer as a Counter only, though.

I'd actually propose the opposite.  For example, having
Alarm32khz32bitC and Alarm32khz16bitC instead of Alarm32khzC allows
you to not include 32-bit libraries if you're only using a 16-bit
alarm.  This saves significant code space, since the 32bitC component
isn't included and neither are the 32-bit arithmetic operations within
it.

By keeping Alarm and Counter separate, you save space too.

-Joe

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