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topic statistics happen in the publisher, so they're a lot lower overhead than subscribing to the topic. Not quite zero overhead, but they shouldn't be too noticeable on the average system.

Of course, every system is different, and the only way to know is to profile your system with topic statistics enabled and disabled, and compare the results.

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