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Type: Improvement
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Resolution: Fixed
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Priority: Major - P3
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Affects Version/s: None
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Component/s: None
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Storage 2017-12-18
In WT-3133 a new function wt_rdtsc was added to get a clock representation that was very fast. However in considering using it to replace more expensive calls to wt_epoch for timing calculations reveals that this is not a simple process. We should add a function and backend support code to convert rdtsc of clock cycles into nanoseconds. We should also compare and consider whether rdtscp is a better instruction.