I seem to recall a document somebody had written some years back about ways
to "make InterBase scream"-or maybe it was Firebird. At any rate, I would
think most of those things would apply to FB, anyway. Does anybody have a
link to this doc? I have an app that works but is slow, and hope to "snappy"
it up a scosh (sp?).

Try this:
http://firebird.sourceforge.net/downloads/makeibscream.pdf

Mike