v6 speed compared to previous versions

[John Smith]

On 11/14/06, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > When was this corrected? Is 6.2 going to be faster than 6.1?
>
> As I said earlier, some of the most important changes that went into
> 6.0 were fixing performance problems in 5.x.  Since then it's been a
> process of polishing and improving, instead of architectural changes.
> So 6.2 is expected to be "better" than 6.1 but probably not measurably
> faster for general workloads.
>
> > Did the guys port the libthr changes into 6.2 or not?
>
> Dunno what you mean here.
>
> Kris

I mean the libthr threading library, MySQL works better with it in 6.1
so I hope the last changes done by David Xu is ported to 6.2

Thank you,

-J