advancedJPA vs. Raw JDBC — Performance & When to Drop Down
What specifically does JPA's entity hydration cost, and why is it usually negligible?
For each loaded row, JPA registers the entity in the persistence context, takes a dirty-checking snapshot, and may generate lazy-loading proxies — real, measurable work, but small relative to actual query execution time and network latency for typical application queries. It only becomes measurable at very high row counts or very high request throughput.
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