[zeromq-dev] Development topics

[Vitaly Mayatskikh]

At Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:01:40 +0100, Martin Sustrik wrote:

> > What's the point of this check? It is entirely x86-specific and is
> > supported since first Pentiums.
> 
> I believe this is because of OpenPGM uses different time measurment 
> approaches, based on the platform. This check is meant to find out 
> whether RDTSC is available and if so, compile OpenPGM with RDTSC option on.

Why not to compile it with rdtsc? Nowadays it's a problem to find a
machine w/o rdtsc.
-- 
wbr, Vitaly