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As I understand it, the process of performing a single fetch (call to get())  from the dastastore using a key basically involves finding the host housing the entity, opening a socket, fetching the data, and then cleaning up the connection.  So to fetch something like 30 entities from the datastore, you're repeating the process 30 times over in serial, each time incurring whatever overhead is involved.  I also read that if you perform bulk fetches, (ie passing multiple keys at once) you can eliminate a great deal of that overhead.  In one of the videos I watched from Google I/0 2009, the presenter (whose name I forget - d'oh) said that performing a bulk fetch actually performs the fetches in parallel from the data store and you shoudl see requests noticeably faster.