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From: "Robert Schutt" <rschutt@cs.colgate.edu>
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Subject: Root Counter Controls -  Problem with library
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 21:48:59 -0400
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After many experiements involving timing instructions
on the MIPS processor I am pretty sure that there
is a problem with the Root Counter functions.

I believe that the root counter is incremented every
clock cycle ... not every 8 clock cycles like the documentation
claims.

This means that each root count is equal to .03 Microseconds
(1 clock cycle) not .24 microseconds.

If anyone is having problems related to this I'm pretty sure this
is a big problem.

This can be obtained by timing single instructions.  I will probably
post the assembly code and results later this week. That I used
to obtain this results.

Does anyone agree or disagree?