> Let me rephrase what I think you are saying:
>
> 1. You have an existing application that consists of a client piece and
> a midware server piece.
> 2. The client piece talks to your midware server piece.
> 3. You want to use Firebird embedded as the backing store for the
> midware server part of your application
>
> U have measured less than 5% improvement in throughput on small
> transactions by using embedded over superserver.
>
> Embedded is superserver in a DLL, so it is not surprising that the
> performance of the two models are similar. The sockets overhead is very
> small, so there is not much difference between them in practical usage.

but he already has his own socket layer bewteen his clients and his midware
so the only saving is in how much more efficient his packet comms is over
FB's - which we know is poor.
Alan