So, I dug up the product link data a bit. The corresponding object that we are considering here is catalog/product_link , which the catalog/product object uses to retrieve data from related objects.
While grouped and related products seem to write this to cronjobs, I have not found cases where this data is written to cron-job for the actual upsell / cross-sell products. I will continue to dig a little, but this, apparently, implies that the products are calculated in saved time.
Hope this helps!
Thanks Joe
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