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Oh, I did not mean to imply it is not a huge factor where it matters. Probably makes a bigger difference in standard CRUD fair apps than people realize.

My assertion is simply that compared to the cost of serializing to/from database/user, it is probably not the pain point of many programmers. Hence, most programmers probably don't think about it.

Just ask a few developers about the ridiculous overhead of HashSet<Integer>. And then see how many places people still use it.



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