PDO FUD; less anecdotes, more facts

I was just skimming over Santos' Post about SDO, and was saddened to see more anecdotes and less facts.

Here are two points that you should take note of:

• PDO is an "ultra fast direct layer to the database".
• The benchmarks I think you're referring to do not include the magic turbo switch I talk about here, that highlights performance problems when using prepared statements, which are on by default.

I'd love to see someone run some fair comparisons and publish the numbers.