For pathces like :
*EBay Patches (5.0)* have included:
- variable length memory storage engine
- pool of threads
- Virtual columns
and others like
*Google Patches (5.0 & 5.1)* included improvements in :
- statistics/monitoring
- lock contention
- binlog
- malloc()
- filesorts
- innodb I/O and wait statistics
- SHOW …STATISTICS statements
- smp scalability
- I/O scalability
- semisync replication
- many more
*Percona Patches (5.0)* focus on
- statistics/monitoring
- performance/scalability
- buffer pool content/mutexes
- microslow patch
Thx
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Regards
Zhu Chao