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Comment by antonio2368

> __rdtsc drift isn’t an AMD bug, it’s by design.

Yes, I should've emphasized this.

> hey probably just got lucky in that the drift always exceeded the time that elapsed between calls on other cpus

And this is also true. :D But I would say we were lucky to notice this problem at all because it really doesn't happen on that many CPUs, at least on the ones we tried out.

parent antonio2368 5 years ago

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