[raggi]

that’s really not true when the database is all in memory, statements are prepared, and so on.

but the overheads also stack up, the database/sql api is fairly allocation heavy too unless you do a lot of work and that friction increases quite a bit with the ffi boundary.

this is not to suggest “modernc is faster” - it’s not for a lot a workloads.

there are opportunities for optimization all over both approaches.