MySQL 5.5: Faster On Windows
MySQL 5.5 delivers major improvements in performance & scalability on Windows.
To achieve these performance and scalability gains, Oracle's MySQL team added several Windows specific features & improvements to MySQL 5.5. They include:
- Reworking the code in order to directly use higher performance native Windows APIs and primitives inside MySQL
- Adding the ability to build engines and other plugins as DLLs on Windows
- Providing Network support for auto-detecting the MAC address Improving Windows threading code.
Whether you're running Windows in a cross platform or Windows only environment, download MySQL 5.5 and give it a try!
