Without 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: 127.999251 seconds Complete requests: 1000 Failed requests: 0 Write errors: 0 Total transferred: 585000 bytes HTML transferred: 5000 bytes Requests per second: 7.81 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 127.999 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 127.999 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 4.46 [Kbytes/sec] received Connection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 0 0 0.0 0 0 Processing: 119 127 19.7 122 347 Waiting: 119 127 19.4 122 347 Total: 119 127 19.7 122 347 Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 122 66% 123 75% 126 80% 128 90% 133 95% 152 98% 209 99% 213 100% 347 (longest request)