Why is the SQLite driver over 18 times slower than sqlite3? How can I tune up the driver? 
root@rschuler:~/chess/icc/chartbot# time perl testdb.pl 
frank001 (463)
SidVicious (307)
Lisebeth (272)
Shawn (204)
albi (149)

real    0m6.341s
user    0m5.956s
sys    0m0.296s
root@rschuler:~/chess/icc/chartbot# time sqlite3 chartbot.db 'SELECT C
+OUNT(*) AS Anzahl, handle FROM channels where timestamp >= 1310478879
+ and channel = 1 GROUP BY handle ORDER BY Anzahl DESC LIMIT 5'
463|frank001
307|SidVicious
272|Lisebeth
204|Shawn
149|albi

real    0m0.349s
user    0m0.312s
sys    0m0.036s

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testdb.pl: 
use DBI;

my $db = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:dbname=/root/chess/icc/chartbot/char
+tbot.db", "", "");

$sth = $db->prepare ("SELECT COUNT(*) AS Anzahl, handle FROM channels 
+where timestamp >= 1310478879 and channel = 1 GROUP BY handle ORDER B
+Y Anzahl DESC LIMIT 5");
$sth->execute ();

while (my @z = $sth->fetchrow_array ()) {
    $handle = $z[1];
    $count = $z[0];
    print "$handle ($count)\n";
}

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Thanks for looking!

In reply to Very slow SQLite driver by raschu

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