My contention was that this article is about least-effort methods (i.e. fopen() vs default SQLite) so a lot of Windows SQLite users are going to have Defender (

My contention was that this article is about least-effort methods (i.e. fopen() vs default SQLite) so a lot of Windows SQLite users are going to have Defender (or heaven help them, something much worse) installed. Once you start getting into optimizations, much of this article starts to sway back and forth. Put enough effort into optimization, and you can outdo SQLite for a specific application, simply because SQLite isn't magic, it's just C. Well-written and highly-optimized C, but purpose-written code always has the potential to do better than general-purpose code. The point of SQLite in general and this report in specific is that you get a lot of performance, power, and safety for free with SQLite as opposed to `fopen()` and such. Good performance while antimalware interferes is just one way this manifests.