Re: performance counter 20% error finding retired instruction count

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Jun 25 2009 - 02:50:11 EST


On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 22:12 -0400, Vince Weaver wrote:
>
> It's also nice to be able to skip the loader overhead, as the loader can
> change from system to system and makes it hard to compare counters across
> various machines. Though it sounds like the perf utility isn't going to
> be supporting this anytime soon.

Feel free to contribute such if you think its important.

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