performance tuning

[Petri Helenius]

Now that 5.3 is the first STABLE release, is the future focus on 
-threads towards performance, so that benchmarks and profiling, etc. 
would be appreciated somewhat more than they might have been previously 
when the development was more in the "just get it working right" mode?

Momentarily I could provide benchmarks from fairly parallel dual-HTT CPU 
machines running libpthread code (both proprietary and real-world 
mysql/apache/mod_perl loads)

Pete