My application is using the C interface to execute queries against
firebird most of which are updates. I find that firebird consumes a
lot of CPU while this is happening. I expected to be I/O bound if at
all it was going to be a bottleneck. I am somewhat surprised by the
amount of CPU it takes. I am also using prepared statement handles
which I just bind and execute, so parsing queries is not an issue.

Any idea how I can track this down ?

Thanks!!