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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:42:54 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Precise guest instruction count.
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Steffen Liebergeld <usenet@gmx.eu> wrote:
> I temporarily disabled timers in Qemu, so normally time should not influence my
> measurements.

As Paul explained, in system mode there are other things that
can cause interrupts, which you can't disable (unless you have
your own emulated OS).


Laurent