2009/8/7 Oliver Zheng <[email protected]>:
>
> On Aug 6, 5:27 pm, Alkis Evlogimenos ('Αλκης Ευλογημένος)
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> You are doing multiple db.get calls while you do a single Query.fetch.
>
> But isn't the point of db.get for multiples a direct real-time (i.e.
> constant time) grab? Where as a query searches through an index first,
> and then does the same grab. If that is true, the time required by a
> query is that multi-get plus index searching. Unless searching through
> the index actually gives you time back, something is not right here.

Queries fetch the entities in parallel - as do bulk gets. Thus, the
time taken for the entity-fetching part of a query or a bulk get is
proportional to the time required to fetch the slowest entity (plus
some overhead transmitting the response back), not linear with the
number of entities.

-Nick Johnson

>
> Oliver
> >
>



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