Tony, > > 1. As you mentioned, we don't see any benefit to runtime selection of > the storage engine; thus the indirect call is unnecessary in our > environment. > > I'm curious about this choice. Have you tried to benchmark the benefit of using a compile-time choice of a storage engine vs. indirect calls at runtime? Do you happen to have any statistics on hand regarding whether that change consistently influences latency/throughput?
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