Updated: November 2007
Microsoft Specific
Generates the rdtsc instruction, which returns the processor time stamp. The processor time stamp records the number of clock cycles since the last reset.
unsigned __int64 __rdtsc();
A 64-bit unsigned integer representing a tick count.
Intrinsic
Architecture
__rdtsc
x86, x64
Header file <intrin.h>
This routine is available only as an intrinsic.
The interpretation of the TSC value in this generation of hardware differs from that in earlier versions of x64. See hardware manuals for more information.
// rdtsc.cpp // processor: x86, x64 #include <stdio.h> #include <intrin.h> #pragma intrinsic(__rdtsc) int main() { unsigned __int64 i; i = __rdtsc(); printf_s("%I64d ticks\n", i); }
3363423610155519 ticks