Accessing x86 Performance Counters

[CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 09:26:40 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 08:53:10 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> There was no word about windows, but process explorer shows 
>> page faults and cycles per process from unprivileged account, 
>> so I guess, this information is available through some API. 
>> Not sure is such system-wide statistics is available too.
>
> He is talking about the performance counters build into intel 
> x86 processors (at least thats what I understood) thats 
> something completely different from page faults and cycles per 
> process. And as it is processor specific there is _no_ general 
> api for it.

That should be "She is talking about ... " :o)