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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: a faster way to gettimeofday? rdtsc strangeness
Date: 7 Mar 2002 10:32:36 -0800
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Followup to:  <1015515815.4373.61.camel@pc-16.office.scali.no>
By author:    Terje Eggestad <terje.eggestad@scali.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Can /proc/cpuinfo really be trusted in figuring out how long a cycle is?
> 

It uses RDTSC, so yes.

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