On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:46 PM, David King <dk...@ketralnis.com> wrote: > > > I am populating a database with 5764 records using the exact same data set > > each time into a newly created file. > > When I use no explicit transactions (default atomic commit) it takes 17.7 > > seconds. > > When I set journal_mode = off, same operation takes 5.5 seconds. > > If I do all 5764 inserts within a single transaction only 2.5 seconds. > > > That sounds about right, yeah. With journalling, most disk writes have to be > done twice (once to the journal and once to the data file).
Which is why I expected journal_mode = off to make it faster. But it is 3 seconds faster when I leave journaling enabled and do all writes within a single transaction. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
