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– 7) Benchmarking support
Nearly all of this topic is at the OS and language levels, not the architectural level. There are some admin operations presently defined – bulk purging the cache for example – and there may be more added as needed, but most such things, interrupt control for example, are the property of various system services and most systems don’t make them available for use directly by apps. Of course, you could write your benchmark to run on a bare machine and get control at power up…