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Type: Technical Debt
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Resolution: Won't Do
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Priority: Major - P3
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Affects Version/s: None
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Storage Engines 2019-05-06, Storage Engines 2019-05-20, Storage Engines 2019-06-03
As of WT-4427, WiredTiger no longer supports anything other than 8B timestamps, which makes the hexadecimal string APIs for getting/setting timestamps unnecessary overhead.
daniel.gottlieb and geert.bosch have expressed a preference for making the switch, noting the string conversions to/from MongoDB's internal integral timestamp values do show up on performance profiles.
Change the WiredTiger timestamp APIs to use integral values instead of hexadecimal strings.
cc: sue.loverso