>>>>With all the small changes I made so far (restoring back calls to MySQLExec) I get 0.21 as first call and 1.77 as last call for 500 iterations.
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>>>The time of execution bears no relation to the memory leak imo
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>>IMHO, if execution time gradually increases for the same call with exactly same parameters - does not it indicate a memory leak?
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>Why should it ?

Why not? How do you explain it otherwise? And also, what is the simple test to see if the memory is leaking or not?