Plan 9 from Bell Labs’s /usr/web/sources/patch/applied/prof-for-ape/cycles.s
#define RDTSC BYTE $0x0F; BYTE $0x31 TEXT _cycles(SB),1,$0 /* time stamp counter; cycles since power up */ RDTSC MOVL vlong+0(FP), CX /* &vlong */ MOVL AX, 0(CX) /* lo */ MOVL DX, 4(CX) /* hi */ RET