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function::get_cycles
Name
function::get_cycles — Processor cycle count.
Synopsis
function get_cycles:long()
Arguments
None
General Syntax
get_cycles:
long
Description
This function returns the processor cycle counter value if available, else it returns zero. The cycle counter is free running and unsynchronized on each processor. Thus, the order of events cannot determined by comparing the results of the get_cycles function on different processors.
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