Is there any tutorial on this for a newbie ?  .. does just having a
reference property is enough or do we need to recode things
specifically ? ..

On Feb 10, 12:59 pm, David Symonds <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1d1:03 AM, Ian Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The documentation seemed to suggest that the more root entities you have the
> > more it can distribute your query so it should be faster, but I'm curious
> > about entity groups and what, if any, advantage there is to putting entities
> > in an entity group besides being able to use them in a transaction. Is there
> > any?
>
> It also benefits from locality. Entity groups are stored close
> together (needed to make transactions fast), which is why lots of
> small entity groups makes the overall application faster (because they
> can be spread out). If you do a bunch of processing on groups of
> entities in a single request then you can put them in a entity group,
> which should make that processing faster because they will be kept
> close.
>
> Dave.
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