Calculate number of "instructions" per (time) period.
The idea for this program was to see how many 'instructions', or cycles, a CPU would go through or perform or execute in a given period of time. So given a certain CPU speed and a time period, calculate how many cycles the CPU will go through.
(of course, instructions is in quotes because it may not be operating on an instruction per se, and it is not accounting for superscalar architecture. Cycles per second is probably the ost accurate, but cpp looked weird in the filename)
It's a simple program and a simple idea. It came to me as I was reading about schedulers and timeslices and I wondered how many cycles happen in 6ms or 48ms for a given CPU, based on its speed.
- Take into account multiple cores, as it is currently not.
- Add some flags, specified in the TODO in the code.