Subject Re: [firebird-support] Digest Number 1791
Author Kevin Herrmann
> I just finished a comparison between FB 1.0 and FB 1.5. I am using Delphi 6
> C/S with IBExpress components a SLQ Query component, db and tn components
> only. This test involves inserting 200,000 records from a DBase file into
> interbase ( 138 fields into 1 table. these are flat files containing
> property information). I am running the inserts from a client across a LAN to
> a local server.
>
> I have been planning to upgrade from 1.0 to 1.5 and decide to run this
> experiment before I did the upgrade. Here is the meat of the matter.
> Running exactly the same program, inserting the same records from the same
> client machine to the same host, across the same LAN I got the following.
>
> FB 1.0.3 345 records/minute or 5.75 per second.
> FB 1.5 rc 6 607 records/minute or 10.11 per second
>
> In this test FB 1.5 is 43% faster.

Great Bob, Thanks! But isn't that 76% faster than FB 1.0.3? I mean, if FB 1.0.3
is the baseline, than 262 more records/minute is actually 76% faster, not 43%.

Kevin