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Using Hardware Performance Counters on Windows

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Overview This paper describes how drivers can safely use hardware performance counters on Windows 7 platforms. Today's processors expose hardware performance counters that count many different events. Performance tools - the typical consumers of these events - uses these counters to measure retired instructions, cache misses, and other hardware events. However, other tools and applications sometimes also use the same hardware performance counters.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	WORD
Date Published	March 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Processors, Windows 7

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Mobility: Make The Case

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ZDNet UK

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portable computers

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portable computers

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CIO Jury
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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Unfair fallout

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Channel:
IT Director
Tags:
energy,
nuclear

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Weekly Round-up

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