On 7 Aug 01 at 22:09, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> "The counter is incremented on every processor clock cycle,
> even when the processor is halted by the HLT instruction or
> the external STPCLK# pin"
But not if clocks are completely stopped, not through STPCLK, but
just stopped.
> "The RDTSC instruction reads the time-stamp counter and is
> _guaranteed_ to return a monotonically increasing unique value
> _whenever_ executed, except for 64-bit wraparound".
This only says that two consecutive RDTSC do not return same value.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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