On Mon, 09 Jul 2018 19:34:44 +0530, Himanshu Jha said: > I think for these benchmarking stuff, to evaluate the cycles and time > correctly you should use the __rdtscp(more info at "AMD64 Architecture > Programmerâs Manual Volume 3: General-Purpose and System Instructions" > Pg 401)
Just beware that many Intel (and maybe some AMD) chipsets have a non-constant TSC frequency. Check /proc/cpuinfo for 'constant_tsc' before relying on the value.
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