Hi Mike
Thats exactly what I mean: localObject is copying one object at the
time. So say I have in my contextA 1 Gallery with 300 related
Paintings, all with PersistentState.COMMITED. I do
contextB.localObject on Gallery, then I access every Painting via
relaionship. this means that the localObject will be invoked 301
times, everytime with single object. I believe this will be faster
than re-fetching the data, but what if there will be 3000 Paintings ?
Is there a limit after which the localObject becomes slower than re-
fetch ?
Marcin
On 02/11/2007, at 11:23 PM, Mike Kienenberger wrote:
> I am no expert in this subject, but the cost of doing I/O is always
> going to exceed the cost of in-system memory copies, probably by
> orders of magnitude. The only place where this might not be true is
> using an in-memory database such as an HSQLDB mem jdbc connection.
>
> So unless you're copying orders-of-magnitude more data than you'd be
> fetching, always copy.
>
> Remember too that a localObject only copies the object, not any of its
> relationships. And the other objects are only pulled in if you
> access them, which is even more fine-grained than prefetching.
>
> So my guess is that localObject is ALWAYS orders of magnitude faster.
> I suspect it'd be extremely difficult to define a situation where this
> was not the case.
>
> On 11/1/07, Marcin Skladaniec <marci..sh.com.au> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> We are improving the performance of our client application (ROP). Not
>> surprisingly we have found that adding prefetches did improve the
>> speed significantly.
>>
>> I have a question though about which is about efficiency of
>> localObject. We are fetching a list of objects (query with
>> prefetches)
>> to a specific one non-editable context. If the object is to be edited
>> it has to be copied to another context which allows committing
>> changes. After the object is copied all the related object are
>> accessed, so the performance of the copying came to my mind.
>>
>> The test I have looks like this:
>>
>> CayenneContext context1;
>> CayenneContext context2;
>>
>> SelectQuery q = new SelectQuery(Painting.class);
>> q.addPrefetch(Painting.GALLERY_PROPERTY);
>> q.addPrefetch(Painting. GALLERY_PROPERTY + "." +
>> Gallery.CITY_PROPERTY);
>> List l = context1.performQuery(q);
>> //now the context1 contain all the records I wanted it to contain
>>
>> Painting p1 = (Painting) l.get(0);
>> Painting p2 = (Painting) context2.localObject(p1.getObjectId(),
>> null);
>>
>> //now the context2 contain only the single record I copied
>> p2.getGallery().getCity();
>> //now context2 contains the same objects as context1
>>
>> All is very quick, but my question is how it will scale when the
>> relationship would be to-many and there will be hundreds related
>> records.
>>
>> What do you think would be a threshold number of related objects
>> which
>> have to be localised over which it would be worth doing a new,
>> specific select query for that single object (with prefetches). Would
>> there be advantage of doing that at all ?
>>
>> We are using cutting edge version of cayenne (I think we use build
>> about 2-3 weeks old).
>>
>> Marcin
>>
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