Improve INSERT-per-second performance of SQLite

Question

Optimizing SQLite is tricky. Bulk-insert performance of a C application can vary from 85 inserts per second to over 96,000 inserts per second!

Background:

Answer 1

Bulk imports seems to perform best if you can chunk your INSERT/UPDATE statements. A value of 10,000 or so has worked well for me on a table with only a few rows, YMMV...