Hi,

I've also found that database access in my application with the binary
release of the class 4 driver that was posted on this group is approximatly
5 times slower the IC2.01 in their areas where the database access times are
logged.

This is with a local database on Win2000 using Firebird 1. It seems to me
that in theory the class 4 driver should be able to outperform interclient
on a local connection as it bypasses Interserver( another loopback
connection, protocol, ect ) and issues (I assume) the same requests as
Interserver would do but directly to the database engine.

Ryan