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The problem exists on AMD CPUs, not Intels. [...] for Intel Core Solo and Intel Core Duo processors [...]: the time-stamp counter increments at a constant ra
by shin_lao 12y ago
The problem exists on AMD CPUs, not Intels.
[...] for Intel Core Solo
and Intel Core Duo processors [...]: the time-stamp counter increments at a constant rate. The specific processor configuration determines the behavior. Constant TSC behavior ensures that the duration
of each clock tick is uniform and supports the use of the TSC as a wall clock timer even if the processor core
changes frequency. This is the architectural behavior moving forward.
Intel Architectures software developer system programming manual 17.13