SQL/Python question -- slow... What is the fixed cost?

[Leonardo B Lopes]

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> 
> MySQL is pretty good at keeping the relevant data in memory, so there
> shouldn't be much if any gain that way.
> 

	That is what I thought too, which is why I figured I could rely on it
for this job. I might still be able to. But the crux of the problem is
that the profiler after all is NOT measuring the time being used by the
mysql process. A good explanation with source snippets has been provided
by Skip. See another posting on this thread...

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