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100ms (e.g. cross-US) latency to your MySQL server? Running 100,000 statements? That's 3 hours of overhead before you even get to your statement runtime on the server. Quick hack:

    mysql> delimiter |
    mysql> select 1;
     -> select 2;
     -> |
    +---+
    | 1 |
    +---+
    | 1 |
    +---+
    1 row in set (0.00 sec)
  
    +---+
    | 2 |
    +---+
    | 2 |
    +---+
    1 row in set (0.00 sec)

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