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Is there any way to programmatically disable Turbo Boost on a Core i7 mac running Mac OS X ? I need to be able to do this for benchmarking purposes during code optimisation etc. Failing that, any kind of utility which can disable/enable Turbo Boost, even if it requires a reboot, would be useful.
There is a related question (not Mac-specific) on SO: How to turn off Turbo Boost temporarily? but even for PCs it seems that there may be no way to do this programatically/on-the-fly ?
I wrote kernel extension that let’s you disable TB, have fun:
https://github.com/nanoant/DisableTurboBoost.kext
If you want to disable TB on Linux here another recipe: http://luisjdominguezp.tumblr.com/post/19610447111/disabling-turbo-boost-in-linux