Hi,


It would be interesting to decrease memory consumption with very large
queries (i.e. millions to billions of returned objects), especially when
returned data are processed one-by-one and thrown away (and
CacheMode.Ignore is used).

Currently, ICriteria.List() first loads results into List, which is then
returned. First result is not usable by application before all results
are loaded, increasing both latency and memory consumption.

I propose conversion of all internal code paths using Lists to
IEnumerable (either explicitly defining enumerator, or using 'yield
return ...').

External APIs should be backward compatible (i.e. ICriteria.Enumerable()
would return IEnumerable and ICriteria.List would use .Enumerable() to
create List.

I expect this change would greatly decrease memory consumption and
latency (even for smaller queries), while very slightly increasing
required CPU time. Overall single-thread throughput should be also
improved, as application could process data while they are still on the
way from database server.

If this change is acceptable, I would be interested in working on this.


Jan

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