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From: ram@shukra.Sun.COM (Renu Raman)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Cycle Counter
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Date: 12 Aug 89 23:04:18 GMT
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In article  grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>Another ``how much does this cost'' question.
>
>When doing performance monitoring, benchmarking or profiling, you want
>a high-resolution timer. Some systems have microsecond timers, and
>those are considered pretty snazzy; I know I was overjoyed when I
>found one on the Encore. Normal machines, e.g., a Sun, have about 5
>millisecond resolution. That's pathetic.

   Depends on what kind of a "normal" Sun you have.  Anything since
   SPARCstation should have a micro-second timer (only 21 bits tho') - so
   2 second is all you have if you want to watch anything.

   renu raman