placeholder-at.patch CODE USED: $nids = db_query("SELECT nid FROM {node} ORDER BY created DESC LIMIT 10")->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_COLUMN); $nodes = db_query("SELECT * FROM {node} WHERE nid IN (@nids)", array('@nids' => $nids))->fetchAll(); $uids = db_query("SELECT uid FROM {users} ORDER BY name DESC LIMIT 25")->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_COLUMN); $users = db_query("SELECT * FROM {users} WHERE uid IN (@uids)", array('@uids' => $uids))->fetchAll(); BENCHMARK RESULTS: Concurrency Level: 1 Time taken for tests: 122.480596 seconds Complete requests: 1000 Failed requests: 0 Write errors: 0 Total transferred: 585000 bytes HTML transferred: 5000 bytes Requests per second: 8.16 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 122.481 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 122.481 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 4.66 [Kbytes/sec] received Connection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 0 0 0.0 0 0 Processing: 119 121 6.3 121 240 Waiting: 119 121 6.2 121 240 Total: 119 121 6.3 121 240 Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 121 66% 121 75% 122 80% 122 90% 123 95% 129 98% 139 99% 148 100% 240 (longest request)