Does enabling Change Data Feed on a Delta table affect OPTIMIZE and ZORDER performance?

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Does enabling Change Data Feed on a Delta table affect OPTIMIZE and ZORDER performance?

After enabling CDF on several large Delta tables, our OPTIMIZE jobs are taking noticeably longer. Is this expected, and are there any tuning parameters to minimize the CDF metadata overhead during compaction?