dpb wrote in :


It's a case of comparing things that for the most part, shouldn't be
compared in the overall rankings; only the minor differences between the
similarly-sized and purposed joints should actually be compared against
each other within a set of classes, perhaps.

Well, the counterpart to what you just said is that you should
consider the size of the joint when picking your joinery method.
If a joinery method is constrained by the size of pre-fab units,
it might not be suitable.

Of course, that's assuming you need maximum strength. As has
been noted several times, for most applications all the joints
are more than ample.

John