Counting on the time stamp counter
Counting on the time stamp counter
Posted Nov 16, 2006 4:41 UTC (Thu) by PaulMcKenney (✭ supporter ✭, #9624)In reply to: Counting on the time stamp counter by jreiser
Parent article: Counting on the time stamp counter
The rumor I hear is that reading TSC does some degree of instruction-stream serialization. Someone from Intel or AMD might be able to shed better light on the performance of rdtsc.