On 2006-06-20 11:36:46 -0700, "Marshall" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> said:
> Robert Martin wrote:
>> On 2006-06-13 13:22:40 -0400, "Marshall" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> said:
>>
>>> Can you state what the benefit of lazy loading is?
>>
>> Yes. There are two that I can think of on the spur of the moment.
>>
>> 1. We don't pay for what we don't use. i.e. if some very late decision
>> means that we don't need the data, we don't have to fetch it.
>
> This is also an attribute of simple querying. Don't need the data?
> Don't query it. Lazy loading doesn't help this at all. This is a
> non-problem.
You asked me for the benefits of lazy loading. You did not ask me to
compare lazy loading with queries. Indeed, I cannot do the latter
since the two are orthogonal. I can implement lazy loading with
queries.
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