On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 02:28, george anzinger wrote:
> Stands for Time Stamp Counter. It is a special cpu register that
> basically counts cpu cycles. Some times (incorrectly me thinks) it is
> affected by power management code which slows the cpu by changing the
> cpu frequency.
Not incorrectly. It counts cpu clocks, its designed for profiling and
the like. There is no guarantee in any Intel MP standard that the clocks
are synched up.
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