I'm excited to see the new features in MySQL 5.6.3. Replication enhancements such as parallel SQL threads, crash safe slave and binlog checksum have been desired for years. I really appreciate that MySQL development team has released 5.6.3 in timely manner. In this blog entry, I'd like to pick up one of my most favorite performance enhancements in MySQL 5.6.3: "network performance improvements". T