That may be true, but that's what programming is for the most part. Pretend like it will just work and then optimize later when it is proven to be too slow thr

That may be true, but that's what programming is for the most part. Pretend like it will just work and then optimize later when it is proven to be too slow through profiling. In this case, you need performance data from the database. Use that data to improve anything that needs it.