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Altera_Forum
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19 years ago

Performance Counter offset

Hi, i have a question about the PERFORMANCE COUNTER component. I have the following code to measure the overhead from starting/stoping the counter: PERF_BEGIN (PERFORMANCE_COUNTER_BASE, 1);...
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15 years ago

It depends. What are you doing inbetween the begin and end? Cache could definitely cause this to happen.