Hi,
> Have you identified this as being a performance bottleneck in any
> realworld application?
Not in the jdbc driver. I had some code from a previous developer where
I had to eliminate calls to String.equalsIgnoreCase() because it was
inside a tight loop (called more than 310 million times). So my
optimization of the jdbc driver was an automatic reaction. I knew the
oracle 8.1 driver does 2 loops, first one with String.equals(), and
then one with String.equalsIgnoreCase(). So you're right, this
doesn't matter for the jdbc driver.
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- Peter Speck