Hi, Is there anyone with firsthand experience with this stuff from the MySQL site? http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/index.html#Compile_and_link_options
[excerpt] If you link dynamically (without -static), the result is 13% slower on Linux. Note that you still can use a dynamic linked MySQL library. It is only the server that is critical for performance. If you strip your mysqld binary with strip libexec/mysqld, the resulting binary can be up to 4% faster. If you connect using TCP/IP rather than Unix sockets, the result is 7.5% slower on the same computer. (If you are connection to localhost, MySQL will, by default, use sockets.) If you connect using TCP/IP from another computer over a 100M Ethernet, things will be 8-11% slower. [/excerpt] Had some marvelous performance enhancements here :) $0.02 Grz, Sander.
