title: How can I programmatically find the CPU frequency with C
body: <p>I'm trying to find out if there is anyway to get an idea of the CPU frequency of the system my C code is running on.</p>
  
  <p>To clarify, I'm looking for an abstract solution, (one that will not be tied to a specific architecture or OS) which can give me an idea of the operating frequency of the computer that my code is executing on. I don't need to be exact, but I'd like to be in the ball park (ie. I have a 2.2GHz processor, I'd like to be able to tell in my program that I'm within a few hundred MHz of that)</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have an idea use standard C code?</p>