# The misc/libcpucycles port

## libcpucycles-20250925 – library for counting CPU cycles

## Description

    libcpucycles provides a simple API to access hardware precise timers
    to understand and improve software performance.

    libcpucycles understands machine-level cycle counters for most architectures.
    libcpucycles also understands common OS-level mechanisms, which give varying
    levels of accuracy.

WWW: https://cpucycles.cr.yp.to/

Only for arches
  aarch64 aarch64 alpha amd64 amd64 arm arm hppa i386 i386 mips64 mips64 mips64el mips64el powerpc powerpc powerpc64 powerpc64 riscv64 riscv64 sparc64
Categories:
  lang/python misc

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- lang/python/3

## Run dependencies