On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> This shows several things about the MySQL release philosophy, at least
> at the time. 1: Introducing performance enhancments without thorough
> testing in a production release is A-OK. 2: The fix may or may not
> actually work when it does get applied. and 3: It can take about a
> year to get that fix in place.
>
> Things may be a LOT better by now. I'd certainly hope so. But I have
> no real confidence or evidence of such an internal change.
Note that I have a lot of respect for the Drizzle team and what
they're doing with MySQL's code base. It seems like they "get it" as
a team, while MySQL never did.