Why is parameterized SQL generated by NHibernate just as fast as a stored procedure?

Question

One of my co-workers claims that even though the execution path is cached, there is no way parameterized SQL generated from an ORM is as quick as a stored procedure. Any hel

Answer 1

Benchmark it yourself. Write a testbed class that executes a sampled stored procedure a few hundred times, and run the NHibernate code the same amount of times. Compare the average and median execution time of each method.