Github user revans2 commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/2203
@HeartSaVioR I agree that if we cannot find a better way we may not want to
support a smooth transition for the metrics, but that also means that we cannot
put it into 1.x.
But I think the underlying problem is actually in our choice of metric. We
are using a meter everywhere, and looking at the
[code](https://github.com/dropwizard/metrics/blob/v3.2.5/metrics-core/src/main/java/com/codahale/metrics/Meter.java)
a meter does not appear that cheap. If all we want/need is a running count,
and not various rates we might want to look at using a
[Counter](https://github.com/dropwizard/metrics/blob/v3.2.5/metrics-core/src/main/java/com/codahale/metrics/Counter.java)
instead.
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