Hi, group. My app's main cost (in dollars and response time) is in the
db.get([list, of, keys, here]) call in some very high-trafficked code.
I want to pare down the size of that model to the bare minimum with
the hope of reducing the time and CPU fee for this very common
activity. Many users who are experiencing growth in the app popularity
probably have this objective as well.

I have two questions that hopefully others are thinking about too.

1. Can I expect the API time of a db.get() with several hundred keys
to reduce roughly linearly as I reduce the size of the entity?
Currently the entity has the following data attached: 9 String, 9
Boolean, 8 Integer, 1 GeoPt, 2 DateTime, 1 Text (avg size ~100 bytes
FWIW), 1 Reference, 1 StringList (avg size 500 bytes). The goal is to
move the vast majority of this data to related classes so that the
core fetch of the main model will be quick.

2. If I do not change the name of the entity (i.e. just delete all the
db.*Property definitions in the model), will I still incur the same
high cost fetching existing entities? The documentation says that all
properties of a model are fetched simultaneously. Will the old
unneeded properties still transfer over RPC on my dime and while users
wait? In other words: if I want to reduce the size of my entities, is
it necessary to migrate the old entities to ones with the new
definition? If so, is it sufficient to re-put() the entity, or must I
save under a wholly new key?

Thanks very much to anyone who knows about this matter!
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