> Correct. Transmeta Longrun and Intel Speedstep do change the clock
> frequency, though; however, at least Transmeta will still present a
> constant-frequency TSC to the RDTSC instruction. Don't know about
> Intel.
I believe Intel also keeps constant TSC.
> (Now, some broken Cyrix chips would lose or not increment the TSC when
> throttled.)
They stop the TSC when the CPU is suspended completely. Thats actually very
nice behaviour on a power sensitive device.
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