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by ErikCorry 87 days ago
Yeah performance counters
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To fill in the details, here is the code used for the measurement:

https://github.com/lemire/counters/blob/main/include/counter...

It fetches the number of mispredicted instructions from Linux's perf subsystem, which in turn gathers the metrics from CPU's PMU (Performance Monitoring Unit) interface.