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Hardware performance counter
In computers, hardware performance counters, or hardware counters are a set of special-purpose registers built in modern microprocessors to store the counts of hardware-related activities within computer systems. Advanced users often rely on those counters to conduct low-level Performance analysis or tuning.
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