I'll happily forget that because it's such a small microscopic price that it's moot. You're way better off optimizing the actual query being made, which SQLAlch

I'll happily forget that because it's such a small microscopic price that it's moot. You're way better off optimizing the actual query being made, which SQLAlchemy is great at because it doesn't hide the SQL from you. Don't use engine.execute(<raw query>), use SQLAlchemy Core if your endpoint is getting hammered.