Subject Re: Why is FireBird so slow in the Internet?
Author marcoaureliocastro
> All this is happening because FB wire protocol was not developed
> for connections with big round-trip time. FB sends quite a few
little
> packets and waits the answer for each one. Actually, it is one
packet
> for each API call except may be isc_dsql_fetch().
> Problem becomes even worse if you use an high-level envelope
> library in your program (like IBO or FIB+) because such libraries
> used to perform many operations which could be skipped according
to
> your exactly needs.
>
> SY, Dimitry Sibiryakov.

Hello Dimitry,

Thanks for the answer. Very precise but scary. I use IBX wich makes
a lot of operations to performa a query, my program also does it.
Doesn't exist a way to workaround this problem? Isn't the developers
of FB working on it?

Thanks,

Marco Castro