The verdict: a definite performance improvement. I tested just a few CPU intensive queries and many of them are a good 30%-50% faster. Transactional/batch jobs involving client machines (i.e. include fixed client/networking/odbc overhead) seem to be about 10%-20% faster although I will need run more data through the system to get a better feel of the numbers.
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