That was a totally 100% fair point you made when we launched for iOS, and something we had completely overlooked. Your comment immediately prompted us to update our bench code to reuse compiled statements and, we’ve been using updated charts to document our iOS performance since then (e.g.: https://speakerdeck.com/timanglade/realm-overview-at-the-sil...). See other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8390541) regarding our performance on Android — we do reuse compiled statements.

EDIT: typos.

EDIT 2: clearly referencing that this message was about iOS and pointing to the other comment for Android.