In SQLite, do prepared statements really improve performance?

Prepared statements improve performance by caching the execution plan for a query after the query optimizer has found the best plan.

If the query you’re using doesn’t have a complicated plan (such as simple selects/inserts with no joins), then prepared statements won’t give you a big improvement since the optimizer will quickly find the best plan.

However, if you ran the same test with a query that had a few joins and used some indexes, you would see the performance difference since the optimizer wouldn’t be run every time the query is.

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