WebI performance - Universe built on BEx against an Info Cube.....

Hi,
I am using SAP BI for some time now. I know after the introduction of BIA (BI Accelerator) the performance of any query has increased atleast 90% from what it used to be. The OLAP performance does not change, but the data retrival (DB Read) has almost negligible.
My question is for some one who is using WebI on top of an Info Cube and on top of a BEx Query.
The performance will be almost comparable of a Web I created on top of a BEx query, because it will still use BIA.
The performance of a Web I document will not be anywhere close to the above when the universe is created on top of an Info Cube, because it cannot use BIA.
Can anyone validate the statement?
Thanks,
Alex.

Ingo,
As mentioned earlier, I too am grateful for your willingness to share your knowledge and insight on the SAP BusinessObjects product.
As a point of order, I was wondering if I could stick my neck out a moment. I notice that your username is marked as a mentor and SAP Employee, so perhaps you can lend a hand here. It seems that "Alex Arthur Sam", in another posting asked a question, then stated he had "found answer.", and after several postings going back to over a year ago, he has not responded. Is there some type of sanction we, as participants, can appeal to so that they can either gently ask Sam to respond or limit his access to the forum as a participant for a period? I know I don't have a dog in this fight, but some day in the future I may be facing a similar situation and am wondering what the SAP Community Network moderator's stance is. Believe it or not, I have worked with clients who, though don't question my abilities, perform their own research on forums such as this to verify when I say such-and-such cannot be done. When they see that others have "achieved the impossible" they expect me to "get to it likewise". Forums seems to be either a boon or rue, but with a moderator's help from time to time the forum can be more bearable otherwise.
Thanks for giving a listen and I (and I'm sure others) await your response.
John
P.S. The note in question is: [Instead of 0FI_GL_14;

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