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That's an incredible idea, it seems so obvious, that's usually the mark of a useful concept. 🙂 Write to those assembler and compiler companies! This would be useful for C programmers, too – turn on assembler output and count cycles on C code! Don't forget the letters to disassembler companies, too, like the Puzzle Factory, and debuggers like Metadigm's. And what about some assembler keywords or C pragmas to mark the region of code you'd like to cycle-count, with in-line totals… Obviously, the computer can't truly cycle-count things like loops unless it knows default data values for counter registers, etc.