> Come on. Each and every system call your beloved program does to the
> Win32 API on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and
> every other newer version to come for a while spend its time
> converting your one-byte chars to two or four bytes per char. Each
> in-parameter gets widened and then each out-parameters gets
> shortened on the return.

Well... AFAIK, Firebird does not use OS calls for its string operations.

Would comparisson of WIN1251 database and UNICODE_FSS one with the
same data be a fair test of the performance on Firebird 2.0?

Roman