Re: [Boost-users] boost timer

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 08:54:09AM -0500, Chris Cleeland wrote:

If you are on an x86 platform, you can use the "rdtsc" assembly instruction to obtain processor tick counts.

Note that many processors do not synchronize such low-level tickcounts between cores or packages, so unless you have thread affinity for a single particular one, you're in deep water unless you know your hardware does not exhibit these kinds of behaviours. -- Lars Viklund | zao@acc.umu.se