[underwater]

Yup, and the same optimization can apply to two different queries requesting different fields on a single object, not just ranges.

GraphQL endpoints don't have to return a single JSON object either, you could hypothetically stream back objects as they become available (Netflix's Falcor seems to be heading in this direction too).

[verbin217]

Ah, so it goes the other way too. Sort of like a request inliner/outliner that can perform dynamic optimizations. The client can inline requests using view-state unknown to the server. Then the server can outline them in whatever desirable way to provide an immediate and eventually complete response. That's clever.