note 16521 deleted from features.persistent-connections by jimw

You need to reuse the persistant connection to see any major gains with your testing program. I.E. iterate several SELECTs within each connect block. This will help reveal the true speed differences. <p> Not necessarily. The speed gains with persistent connections appear to be only in startup overhead, not execution. So, you can be smart about it if you are using non-persistent connections by grouping multiple SQL statements together and sending them to the backend as one, instead of connecting each time for each execution (assuming of course we are talking about SQL in a single page).