#include #include __inline__ unsigned long long int rdtsc() { unsigned long long int x; __asm__ volatile (".byte 0x0f, 0x31" : "=A" (x)); return x; } main () { struct timezone tz; struct timeval tvstart, tvstop; unsigned long long int cycles[2]; /* gotta be 64 bit */ unsigned int microseconds; /* total time taken */ bzero(&tz, sizeof(tz)); /* get this function in cached memory */ gettimeofday(&tvstart, &tz); cycles[0] = rdtsc(); gettimeofday(&tvstart, &tz); /* we don't trust that this is any specific length of time */ sleep(1); cycles[1] = rdtsc(); gettimeofday(&tvstop, &tz); microseconds = ((tvstop.tv_sec-tvstart.tv_sec)*1000000) + (tvstop.tv_usec-tvstart.tv_usec); printf("%f MHz processor.\n", (float)(cycles[1]-cycles[0])/microseconds); }