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