Hello:

I am new on gem5 and I wanted to properly understand what the simSeconds variable represents. I have been using it to execute several synthetic benchmarks (Dhrystone, Whetstone) on a Deriv03CPU model, and everything went fine.

The thing is that while looking at stats.txt file I get a real low simSeconds value
As I understand, simSeconds represents the seconds simulated, so it represents the benchmark time.
Please correct me if I am wrong.

To get the stats I use the m5_addr version of resetstats at the start of it and m5_addr version of dumpstats at the end

When I execute this on a real hardware platform (Raspberry Pi 4B) I get a higher execution time, so I dont really understand why simSeconds is so low.

Thank you in advance.