Portability | at own risk. Amd64/linux tested and working. |
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Stability | experimental |
Maintainer | echo@echonolan.net |
Safe Haskell | None |
This module provides the function rdtsc for accessing the equivalent of x86's rdtsc instruction on your processor. To oversimplify quite a bit, this is the number of clock cycles since bootup. You should generally only use this as a source of relative time.
As an example, you may use the following program to measure the overhead of calling this function:
module Main where import System.CPUTime.Rdtsc main = do t1 <- rdtsc t2 <- rdtsc putStrLn ("Cost of rdtsc (ffi call): " ++ show (t2 - t1))