Re: Win95 performance counter interface?

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From: Todd West
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:00

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>or more directly the RDTSC instruction (I know this exists on the
>Pentium, but I'm not sure about P II).  This returns the number of clock

All Pentium or later Intel processors have rdtsc.  No AMD, Cyrix, or IDT
processors do, though the K6 does implement a performance counter and
an rdmsr to get at it, if you happen to be in ring 0.

Todd
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