Q&A: RDTSC to measure performance of small # of FP calculations

Igor Levicki
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I would like to add that from my experience it is possible to measure even single instruction performance (approximate of course due to dependencies and what not) if you repeat it at least 100,000 times in a loop between two RDTSC instructions.
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