Does query variables have extra overhead?

[amaster507 (Anthony Master)]

I am doing almost the same thing!

Filter vs Function performance

Is there any performance degradation from moving a filter to the @filter instead of the function? Let’s say I have a type of Contact that has 30K nodes. I want to get all of them that have the Contact.firstName predicate equal to Anthony (8 Contacts). Here are two different ways to do that: query { wType(func: type(Contact)) @filter(eq(Contact.firstName, "Anthony")) { uid } wOutType(func: eq(Contact.firstName, "Anthony")) { uid } } They will both provide the same results, but is either on…