To those "listening in" on this thread: all I can say is IBO
ROCKS !!!. Carlos sent me his version of my test program using
the "IB_xxx" components in stead of the "IBOxxx" components. A few
items needed to be ironing out however this new IBO version of my
test program is a factor 3 faster than my IBX version.

--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, "Carlos Macao" <Carlos.Macao@n...>
wrote:

> Hi Pelle,
>
> After my previous answer I play a little with your sources and

came

> to a more precise comparison using your project demo:
>
> Firebird version: 1.5 SS RC6
> IBO version: 4.2 If test
> IBX version: 6.04
> Hardware: Pentium 4M 2.4 Ghz
> OS: Win XP RC1
>
> Using your demo untouched with forced writes=off, with 1 thread (I
> couldn't put to work your demo with more then one thread), with
> automatic garbage disabled, for 20000 record inserts I got :
>
> 76 inserts per second.
>
> Using your demo for ibx, I've got:
>
> 691 inserts per second.
>
> Using the same racing conditions but with IBO components replaced

by

> dsql ones, with indexes disabled and commit for each 1000 inserts,
> I've got:
>
> 2314 inserts per second.
>
> I repeated this tests more then once.
>
> Carlos Macao