Index: src/btree.c
==================================================================
--- src/btree.c
+++ src/btree.c
@@ -5139,10 +5139,11 @@
     idx = upr>>(1-biasRight); /* idx = biasRight ? upr : (lwr+upr)/2; */
     pCur->aiIdx[pCur->iPage] = (u16)idx;
     if( xRecordCompare==0 ){
       for(;;){
         i64 nCellKey;
+sqlite3PerfCnt++;
         pCell = findCellPastPtr(pPage, idx);
         if( pPage->intKeyLeaf ){
           while( 0x80 <= *(pCell++) ){
             if( pCell>=pPage->aDataEnd ) return SQLITE_CORRUPT_BKPT;
           }
@@ -5172,10 +5173,11 @@
         idx = (lwr+upr)>>1;  /* idx = (lwr+upr)/2; */
       }
     }else{
       for(;;){
         int nCell;  /* Size of the pCell cell in bytes */
+sqlite3PerfCnt++;
         pCell = findCellPastPtr(pPage, idx);
 
         /* The maximum supported page-size is 65536 bytes. This means that
         ** the maximum number of record bytes stored on an index B-Tree
         ** page is less than 16384 bytes and may be stored as a 2-byte

Index: src/sqliteInt.h
==================================================================
--- src/sqliteInt.h
+++ src/sqliteInt.h
@@ -4318,7 +4318,9 @@
 int sqlite3ExprVectorSize(Expr *pExpr);
 int sqlite3ExprIsVector(Expr *pExpr);
 Expr *sqlite3VectorFieldSubexpr(Expr*, int);
 Expr *sqlite3ExprForVectorField(Parse*,Expr*,int);
 void sqlite3VectorErrorMsg(Parse*, Expr*);
+
+sqlite3_uint64 sqlite3PerfCnt;
 
 #endif /* SQLITEINT_H */

Index: src/vdbe.c
==================================================================
--- src/vdbe.c
+++ src/vdbe.c
@@ -504,11 +504,12 @@
 
 /* 
 ** hwtime.h contains inline assembler code for implementing 
 ** high-performance timing routines.
 */
-#include "hwtime.h"
+/*#include "hwtime.h"*/
+#define sqlite3Hwtime(x) sqlite3PerfCnt
 
 #endif
 
 #ifndef NDEBUG
 /*