Speed, its all relevant
Geek stuff...

When Tim and I were working at DEC, we were working on a DBOS to CHAMP conversion. Or as we affectionately called it, The project from Hell. The goal of that was to get all the obligation data out of one database and migrate it to another database (converting it on the way via a set of complex mapping rules). We had to do this in the middle of the night. I think it was from 1:00 AM to 7:00 AM, or something like that. In any case, we had to process about 6000 records during this time. I can't remember for sure, but I think we had at least 3 hours, and maybe it was up to 6.

I'm now working on a Sheriff Implementation where we are doing something I probably can't talk about and we'll be processing about 6000 records a SECOND.

I guess what is fast all depends upon what you are working on. :-)