[agilord]

I assume you have 'events' that you will 'merge' together in a single state object (in case you want to display something). So the operation is to fetch every related event, merge, display.

Now the 'folding' can be defined as snapshotting the 'merged state'. Instead of fetching 10 events, after the folding + GC, you will fetch e.g. 2 + the folded one. You are saving some CPU and bandwidth over time and that's it.