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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 01:02:10 +0100
From: Andrea Mazzoleni <am AT mediacom DOT it>
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Subject: Re: RDTSC ?
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 12:54:07PM +0000, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> IIRC, uptime is probably the one thing RDTSC is least useful for.  The
> counters overflow much too early for that.
It's a 64 bits counter. You need more than 100 years to overflow it.

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Andrea Mazzoleni
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