I intended to put bytes of article.jsp output as a property on Article
class, so my concern was whether it could slow the query down should I
fetch tens or hundreds of Article.class entities. I have already
changed my mind here though.
But I guess I will run into similar situation one day again, thanks
for the reply.

Regards
  J. Záruba

On May 11, 1:07 am, "Ikai L (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Entities are fetched whole, so if you have a large Blob property and you are
> fetching it all the time, it would take longer than fetching an entity
> without a Blob property. Unless you're frequently (every request) retrieving
> a large Blob, this shouldn't be *that* expensive. Small blobs shouldn't take
> that much longer. Your mileage may vary, so you'll have to do some
> benchmarking to see.
>
> What are you thinking of doing?
>
> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Jaroslav Záruba
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Will a query be any faster/slower depending on whether the entities
> > being queried/returned have any Blob properties?
> > (Or is there no difference until I actually call a getter for such
> > property?)
>
> > Regards
> >  J. Záruba
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