Efficiently updating database using SQLAlchemy ORM

Question

I\'m starting a new application and looking at using an ORM -- in particular, SQLAlchemy.

Say I\'ve got a column \'foo\' in my database and I want to increment it.

Answer 1

If it is because of the overhead in terms of creating objects, then it probably can't be sped up at all with SA.

If it is because it is loading up related objects, then you might be able to do something with lazy loading. Are there lots of objects being created due to references? (IE, getting a Company object also gets all of the related People objects).