On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Actually, get_cycles() at least on some AMD cpus, do not synchronize the
> core, which can skew the results. You might want to use
> get_cycles_sync() there.
get_cycle() results as used here are bound to a single processor. If we
end up on a different processor at the end of the measurement then the
result is discarded. So not need for get_cycles_sync.
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