Not to be a pedant, but prepare() can be faster than prepare_cached() 56% faster, in fact ;) 
use DBI;
use Data::Dumper;
use Benchmark q(:all);
use strict;

my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:test","root","", {RaiseError=>1}) ||
+ die $DBI::errstr;

cmpthese( 9999, {
  cache   => 'prepcache',
  normal => 'prep',
});

sub prepcache {
    $dbh->prepare_cached("X"x100_000);
}
sub prep {
    $dbh->prepare("X"x100_000);
}

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        Rate  cache normal
cache  365/s     --   -36%
normal 569/s    56%     --

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: mod_perl was hosed by a bind variable by tantarbobus
in thread mod_perl was hosed by a bind variable by phildog

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