Adam,

>> Probably a question more suited to the developers list, but can anything
>> be done within the guts of Firebird to make this traffic "less verbose"
>> and therefore Firebird more attractive for Internet based interactive
>> apps?

A> No doubt it could, but at the expense of performance on low latency
A> high speed networks?

actually I think that if the wire protocol would batch the packets
a bit more, you would see the advantages both on high latency and on
slow latency networks.

Ciao
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