If DBI isn't fast enough your problem is almost certainly IO, hardware or the choice of Perl as the implementation language.

I/O and hardware, unfortunately in this case, is out of my control. Hosted ISP site. Even the version of Perl is something I'm locked into. Version 5.005_03 and I'm sure not the latest and greatest DBI.

Maybe I should just leave this project as an intellectual excersize. Still it might make a great PM Mediation when I do the benchmarks... :-)

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