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I want to find out how many x86-64 instructions are executed during a given run of a program running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I know I can get this information from valgrind but the slowdown is considerable. I also know that we are using Intel Core 2 Quad CPUs (model Q6700) which have hardware performance counters built in. But I don’t know of any way to get access to the total number of instructions executed from within a C program.
Performance Application Programming Interface (PAPI) appears to be along the lines of what you are looking for.
From the website:
Vince Weaver, a Post Doctoral Research Associate with the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee, did some PAPI-related work. The research listed on his web page at UTK looks like it may provide some additional information.