Name: rdtsc Version: 1.1.1 License: GPL License-file: COPYING Author: Martin Grabmueller Maintainer: magr@cs.tu-berlin.de Homepage: http://uebb.cs.tu-berlin.de/~magr/projects/rdtsc/doc/ Category: System Synopsis: Binding for the rdtsc machine instruction Description: This module provides the function 'rdtsc' for accessing the 'rdtsc' machine register on modern IA-32 processors. This is a 64-bit counter which counts the number of processor cycles since the machine has been powered up. Using this instruction, you can make very precise time measurements which are independent of the actual CPU frequency. But note that you can get strange results sometimes on a superscalar processor. . Also note that the Haskell foreign function interface imposes some additional overheads. On my machine, it takes about 950 cycles to call this function twice and to compute the difference, whereas in C the overhead is only about 88 cycles. Stability: Experimental Build-depends: base Exposed-Modules: System.CPUTime.Rdtsc Extensions: ForeignFunctionInterface C-sources: cbits/rdtsc.c Include-dirs: cbits Install-includes: rdtsc.h ghc-options: -O -Wall -Werror