Trust the statement count, not the stopwatch: this machine's suite timings drift about 20% between runs, so the branch-read regression is recorded as 201 SELECTs -> 2 rather than as seconds. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017Dvvqn9ZDR4ixeFPHNbww7