performance increase for massive write and read operations?

[Tim Stoop]

Hi there,

I was wondering, will a Master-Slave setup increase performance (apart
from the obvious extra proc and mem available) in a setup where there
are a lot of INSERTs on the master and a lot of SELECTs on the slave?
Like, the replication itself, is it in some way optimised so it
doesn't take as much time on the slave as it does on the master? Both
the INSERTs and the SELECTs aren't very complicated.

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Kind regards,
Tim