Here is the link to the Drupal 5.8 vs 6.3 performance benchmarks mentioned in the meeting on October 3rd:
http://vision-media.ca/resources/drupal/drupal-performance-benchmarks-58...
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I can confirm the above results. See here Benchmarking Drupal 5.x vs. 6.x which one is faster?
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