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

He may be correct for the specific use case he is thinking of. A stored procedure will probably execute faster for some complex set of SQL, that can be arbitrarily tuned. However, something you get from things like hibernate is caching. This may prove much faster for the lifetime of your actual application.