How effective is executeBatch on a Prepared Statement?

Question

Subject to this question, asks it all:How effective is executeBatch method? Is there a performance benchmark, that says.. \'if you have 1000 records to be inserted, using a exec

Answer 1

In the batchExecute() update statements are taking more time then insert statements I am tring with 5001 insert and update statements ration of performance is 15:84