addslashes() vs. magic_quotes_gpc

If you have magic_quotes_gpc = On in your php.ini file, which it is by default, does one still need to have the addslashes function in their coding? When I'm inserting into my database, I have addslashes in place, and I haven't change the default value of magic_quotes_qpc = On. I havn't seen any side effects from this. It seems like it's doing this job twice. Would any speed difference be seen by using / not using either of these? I currently have 3 databases, roughtly 25 tables each, with roughly 500 entries in each (growing about 50 daily), and it's starting to get sluggish when I do a select * from tablename. I need to recover all the speed I can. If anyone has any other little tweaks I can do to gain performance, that would be helpful. Thanks, Jake McHenry Nittany Travel MIS Coordinator http://www.nittanytravel.com