They do different things.

Deleting mutations marks each entry with a delete marker.  Using the
iterator marks a whole row with a single mutation.

If you have a million entries in your row, the iterator is faster for
the delete, but requires a seek to the start of the row for every
read, so reads are slower.

If your row has one entry, they are the same thing.

Somewhere under N keys... the mutation path will be quite fast, and
still preserve your reading speed.  I'll just pull a number out of
thin air... let's say a few thousand.

-Eric



On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:01 PM, David Medinets <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are there any reason to favor one approach over the other?

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