sqlite3 benchmarking with C, DL, and FFI drivers

gistfile1.txt

surfboard:sqlite3-ruby-ffi asari$ git log --pretty=oneline -1
3c89051443842b46f37d48914db5d66c05965719 allow column_decltype to get utf16 parameter avoid duplicate of sqlite3_step symbol first pass at value_blob, value_text and column_blob. more simplistic view of create_function.
surfboard:sqlite3-ruby-ffi asari$ ruby -v -rubygems -I lib -I ext -I test test/native-vs-dl-vs-ffi.rb 
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [universal-darwin9.0]
database creation...
             user     system      total        real
dl       0.180000   0.160000   0.340000 (  0.351612)
native   0.130000   0.160000   0.290000 (  0.293039)
ffi      0.190000   0.170000   0.360000 (  0.364955)

database open...
             user     system      total        real
dl       0.130000   0.070000   0.200000 (  0.198590)
native   0.140000   0.070000   0.210000 (  0.217930)
ffi      0.120000   0.070000   0.190000 (  0.192488)

insertions
             user     system      total        real
dl       0.090000   0.000000   0.090000 (  0.092984)
native   0.040000   0.010000   0.050000 (  0.045711)
ffi      0.190000   0.600000   0.790000 (  1.480809)

insertions using prepared statement
             user     system      total        real
dl       0.090000   0.000000   0.090000 (  0.091640)
native   0.050000   0.000000   0.050000 (  0.058902)
ffi      0.030000   0.000000   0.030000 (  0.033031)

queries
             user     system      total        real
dl       0.350000   0.020000   0.370000 (  0.375877)
native   0.160000   0.020000   0.180000 (  0.181752)
ffi      0.150000   0.020000   0.170000 (  0.172081)