ghalliday/HPCC-Platform — comment on commit 8b77461f1b7d9965353d928882d23bd47e20614c
File: roxie/roxiemem/roxiemem.cpp line 318
By richardkchapman:

so do I in general, but I also dislike repeated tests...

You could (without ill effect) remove cyclesNow variable altogether and simply call get_cycles_now twice if you wanted.