Re: Win95 performance counter interface?

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From: jwes
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:00

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On 28 Nov 1998 15:49:11 GMT, LKS <lk213@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>Brandon Van Every wrote:
>> 
>> Does Win95 have an API interface to SET UP the Pentium II performance
>> counters?  i.e. a built-in method to indirectly execute the Ring 0 WRMSR
>> instruction?
>
>you can use the Win32 API
>
>  QueryPerformanceCounter
>  QueryPerformanceFrequency
>

I suspect he is looking for the other performance counters, such as
cache misses, etc. If there is not one built-in (or documented), it
would be a trivial VxD.

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