Currently, ClocksPerSec is determined by exec'ing getconf in func init,
i.e. on startup of every program importing the package. getconf might
not be present on some systems or is not executable by the current user.
To avoid this hard to control dependency, use the
github.com/tklauser/go-sysconf package which implements sysconf(3)
entirely in Go without cgo. The package is supported on all platforms
currently supported by the cpu and v3/cpu package of gopsutil.
Empirical benchmark (calling to cpu.Info):
Lomanics-iMac:~ lomanic$ time ./cpu_info
info 0: {"cpu":0,"vendorId":"GenuineIntel","family":"6","model":"30","stepping":5,"physicalId":"","coreId":"","cores":2,"modelName":"Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6440HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz","mhz":2590,"cacheSize":256,"flags":["syscall","xd","em64t","lahf","lzcnt","prefetchw","rdtscp","tsci","fpu","vme","de","pse","tsc","msr","pae","mce","cx8","apic","sep","mtrr","pge","mca","cmov","pat","pse36","clfsh","mmx","fxsr","sse","sse2","htt","sse3","ssse3","cx16","sse4.1","sse4.2","popcnt","vmm"],"microcode":""}
real 0m0.049s
user 0m0.023s
sys 0m0.041s
Lomanics-iMac:~ lomanic$ time ./cpu_info.fixed
info 0: {"cpu":0,"vendorId":"GenuineIntel","family":"6","model":"30","stepping":5,"physicalId":"","coreId":"","cores":2,"modelName":"Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6440HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz","mhz":2590,"cacheSize":256,"flags":["fpu","vme","de","pse","tsc","msr","pae","mce","cx8","apic","sep","mtrr","pge","mca","cmov","pat","pse36","clfsh","mmx","fxsr","sse","sse2","htt","sse3","ssse3","cx16","sse4.1","sse4.2","popcnt","vmm","syscall","xd","em64t","lahf","lzcnt","prefetchw","rdtscp","tsci"],"microcode":""}
real 0m0.010s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.006s
* for Darwin, it is a minor tweak for readability: the value
returned is in Hz, so using a variable named 'hz' makes more
sense than 'mhz'
* for Linux, the unit is in kHz so we need to divide the value
from `cpuinfo_max_freq` by 10^3 to get MHz (see
cpu-freq/user-guide.txt of the kernel documentation)
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