From: Pete Lancashire Date: February 23 2005 3:43am Subject: Which version for fastest simple inserts, selects etc List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/180398 Message-Id: <1109130220.11542.144.camel@l1.pdxeng.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If I needed a brute force DB on an x86 platform would using Version 3 vs 4 buy me any performance today ? 90% inserts, 5% simple selects, 5% other. Sorry if a lame question -pete