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libcpucycles-20260105

library for counting CPU cycles

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Description

libcpucycles provides a simple API to access hardware precise timers to understand and improve software performance. libcpucycles understands machine-level cycle counters for most architectures. libcpucycles also understands common OS-level mechanisms, which give varying levels of accuracy.

Package information

Ports path
misc/libcpucycles
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Miguel Landaeta <miguel@miguel.cc>
Categories
misc, lang/python
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64, alpha, hppa

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