> remove it there. Remove the assembly code, or remove the package?
It wasn't clear to me whether the bit that reads an Intel performance counter is central to the whole point of the package, or just a feature that some users might find useful. If you modified that function to return 0 on non-Intel architectures, would the package then be useless on those other architectures? Also, I'm curious to know how useful this feature is on a multi-core Intel system. Does the package arrange for processes to remain on a single core? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Stamp_Counter says: "With the advent of multi-core/hyper-threaded CPUs, systems with multiple CPUs, and hibernating operating systems, the TSC cannot be relied on to provide accurate results — unless great care is taken to correct the possible flaws: rate of tick and whether all cores (processors) have identical values in their time-keeping registers. There is no promise that the timestamp counters of multiple CPUs on a single motherboard will be synchronized." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org