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Numerous people have pointed out that there exist tools to produce
instructions counts, which would aid in the counting of integer / floating
point operations.  This is true (I have written a quick-and-dirty instruction
counter myself, using ptrace), but such tools tend to be system/architecture
dependent (even my single stepper didn't work on SPARC), cumbersome to use,
and report with different granularity.  For instance, what exactly would
constitute a floating point operation, and how would the various tools report
it?

Benchmarks should be self-contained.  Relying on extra system dependent
hardware or software to analyze the results of a run will only serve to
guarantee apples-to-oranges comparisons.