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From: John Herbster TeamB
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:41

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"David J Taylor" <davidtaylor@writeme.com> wrote
> > For performance measures, though, RDTSC is the better thing to use.
>
> Why?

(1) RDTSC has higher resolution.
(2) RDTSC requires fewer cycles to fetch readings.
(3) Clock cycles are easier (for me) to relate to
 machine instruction times than are nanoseconds.
--JohnH

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