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Cycles calculation in beagle board

Note: This was originally posted on 22nd November 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

Hello All,

I am trying to use the cycle counter registers of cortexA8 for calculating cycles.
Following is the code i am using.

int main()
{
     int i;
     int a,b,c,n;
     printf("Enter a: ");
     scanf("%d",&a);
     printf("Enter b: ");
     scanf("%d",&B);
     printf("Enter c: ");
     scanf("%d",&c);
     printf("No of times to run: ");
     scanf("%d",&n);

     ccnt_init();
     ccnt_start();
     cycles=ccnt_read();
     {
             c=a+b;
     }
     cycles=ccnt_read()-cycles;
     ccnt_stop();
     printf("Sum : %d\n",c);
     printf("Cycles : %d\n",cycles);
}

The above simple integer addition takes 5 cycles since it includes load operations.
If all the above variables are made double it takes 3800 cycles if I enable neon and 1900cycles if i disable neon.
Kindly explain how i am getting these values.
I am using beagle board XM-A3 to run this code and i am using codesourcery 2010q1 toolchain to compile the code.
I am wondering whether it is due to the interrupts. If so how to disable the interrupts.

Thanks in advance..