Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/906#issuecomment-121559974 Yeah, we can add a way to not have timestamps. But my feeling is that this is pre-mature optimization. The point where this is really relevant is when people do super small records and push the throughput to max capacity. That impacts standalone benchmarks, but is probably not a real world issue.
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