Preparing SQL Statements with PDO

Question

My code looks like this:

// Connect to SQLite DB
DB(\'/path/to/sqlite.db\');

DB(\'BEGIN TRANSACTION;\');

// These loops are just examples.
for ($i = 1; $i          


        

Answer 1

The DB function as originally posted issues a filesystem stat() system call each time it is run to check if the query string is a file. While that isn't solely responsible for the slow execution, it contributes to it.