[Valgrind-users] Using valgrind for timing application timing

[Chris J. <ch...@bu...>]

Hello,

I've been successfully been using valgrind for a long time now for
finding memory leaks and profiling my application.

Now I would like to use valgrind to produce a computer and run
independant method of measuring the run-time of my application.
Cachegrind dumps number of instructions used, number of cache
misses/etc.

I'm sure this is a FAQ (maybe it should be added to the FAQs?) but is
there an accepted best way to get a computer independant measure of
"run-time" from the various numbers which are outputted?

Chris