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[hasmanean]

Finally.

[mhh__ → hasmanean]

Didn't papi already do this?

[gkhartman → mhh__]

I don't have any experience with papi, but this looks like it could be a lighter weight solution for those who don't want to pull in a larger dependency (hobby projects?). Just a guess based on a quick skim of the papi docs [0].

[0] https://bitbucket.org/icl/papi/wiki/PAPI-Overview.md#markdow...