Asynchronous commit - wait or no wait 10GR2

In 10GR2 there is an option to commit immediate nowait which allows the commit to return before the redo is persistent in the redo log. This is not the default. The default commit remains as commit write immediate wait.  

I am testing Sybase and Oracle inserts and I have noticed an oddity with in Oracle. Solaris 10G T2000 server 10.2.0.3  

A simple stored procedure  

create table loaded1 ( id number, name varchar2(8), last_modified date);    

create or replace procedure sp4 ( loops in number)

as

cnt number :=0;  

begin

while (cnt < loops)

        LOOP         insert into loaded1 values (cnt,'abcdefgh',sysdate);

        commit write immediate nowait; XXXXXXXXX

        cnt := cnt+1;

        END LOOP; commit;

 end;

/

Where line xxxxxxxx can be commit write immediate wait;, commit write immediate nowait; , commit; The first and last should be identical and be the Oracle default. My parameter commit_write is not set. I am truncating the table after each run.  

Timings  

CWIW 5000 records 57 secs

CWINW 5000 records 3 seconds

Commit 5000 records 3 seconds  

These figures are repeatable. I think that the first and longest option should be the Oracle default according to all the documentation but I am thinking that in fact the 2nd option (nowait) is the real default.  

Am I missing something here

 John

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