--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "mohamed.banaouas"
<mohamed.banaouas@...> wrote:

>
> hi all,
> Does any one tested firebird classic on windows plateform ?
> I mean, is it faster than superserver, even if it requires moore ram?

It is just different to Superserver. Superserver has a shared cache
which all connections can use, whereas the cache in Classic is per
connection (and hence the cache is usually smaller). It is cheaper to
establish a new thread than a new process, so another win for
Superserver. But Superserver can not make use of SMP. It is bound to a
single CPU core, whereas classic can. This is a big win for classic.

If there was an architecture that performed better under all
situations, I highly doubt both of them would be maintained.

Adam