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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 09:34:11 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: RDTSC ?
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On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Damien Knight wrote:

> As I've been told, RDTSC is a feature of pentium (and up) processers that
> tracks the number of processer cycles completed since the system last
> powered up, making it useful for calculating system uptime - but more
> importantly, it can be used to test code optimization and so on.
> 
> My question : How do I get this value and use in in a DJGPP program?  If
> anyone has a function already written, that'd be great.

I suggest to search the archives of this group for RDTSC, I'm quite
sure such code was posted here at least once.

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