To answer my own question: No, I wasn't doing it correctly. I should have
done a sanity check before posting.
New timeit code and results at bottom, now using a smaller dataset (~900
objects).
Notable:
- An .exists() query is about 1/100 the time of full fetch in this case.
This difference
Thanks for great info.
First, I'm leaning towards Aymeric's proposition here. I do recognize that
there is a lot to consider.
This seems to be important:
1. Developers must be able to explicitly choose methods to optimize for
their environment. (Considering database latency, dataset size,
