DynamoRIO / DynamoRIO/dynamorio

drcachesim delayed tracing: use PMU to count instructions for low-overhead non-traced phase

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Description

Today drcachesim's delayed tracing counts instructions using instrumentation. This can be surprisingly expensive (TODO: measure on x86 and aarch64). This is a feature idea to run purely natively and use the PMU to count instructions and take over when the threshold is reached.

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