**Title of the Project/Idea**

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&|Areas                   | C, system calls, cpu counters, portability |&
&|Good if student knows   | C (required) |&
&|Priority                | Medium |&
&|Difficulty              | Medium |&
&|Benefits to the student | Getting familiar with cpu performance counters, learning to code a Tcl extension |&
&|Benefits to Tcl         | Improved tools for performance estimation, both in applications and core development |&
&|Mentor                  | [Miguel Sofer] |&

**Project Description**

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**References**

''A Crash Course in Modern Hardware'' [http://www.azulsystems.com/events/javaone_2009/session/2009_J1_HardwareCrashCourse.pdf] (slide 64 as motivator)
''Performance Counters for Linux'' [http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/devices/lxr/http/source/linux/tools/perf/design.txt]
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**Comments & Discussion**

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