<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Oct 29, 2012, at 5:12 AM, David Tweed <<a href="mailto:david.tweed@arm.com">david.tweed@arm.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">noticeable number of "iterations" not just because of the TSC not serialising, but because you're really trying to estimate the cost of an instruction in the context of lots of executions<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Not to mention that we also want to support cross-compilation. </div></body></html>