> In that case, would you expect a file in ramdisk, perhaps just after a copy to /dev/null, to be near-identical speed to the malloc() because it goes through identical Sqlite code and accesses identical in-physical-RAM memory? Not in the slightest: a db on a RAM disk is, for sqlite3's purposes, on external storage (and sqlite has no way of knowing otherwise), so it's going through the filesystem-based API. The in-memory VFS is the fastest you're going to get, hands down, no comparison.