As promised I've had a play with the CVS
Axion version (better late than never!).
The improvement is pretty impressive. I rewrote a bit of my benchmark code to make it more repeatable, and found the
following:
| Version | Number of Rows | Time (seconds) | Rows per second |
| axion-1.0-M1-dev.jar | 10015 | 314 | 31.9 |
| axion-1.0-M2-dev.jar (CVS 6 May 2003) | 10015 | 65 | 154 |