Include file efficiency

ok so include file is a very useful and powerful tool that asp has. what i'd like to know is how efficient is it since it to looks through all the pages that are lincluded on a single page even if they are not 'used' via an if statement. is this a memory hog if you have alot of pages that have multiple includes? does this cause any other problems/issues?

when you include a file it has to be interpretted. if you do not use the file then it is a waste. it will take up memory and use more cpu (to process). there is also some file i/o involved which is generally slow.

I guess noponts reply is a relative statement when he says "slow." I have worked on apps where single page requires over 25 thousand lines of code to render the page notincluding the time to use ado and such but the page loads faster than some peoples plain vanilla html. These pages used at least 20 include files to make it happen.

So, in my experience the benefits of code re-useage far outway any risks of "slowness."

Be sure to read these two articles!

http://www.aspfaqs.com/aspfaqs/ShowFAQ.asp?FAQID=55


and


http://www.aspfaqs.com/webtech/080199-1.shtml


Hope this helps!
Sincerely

Vlince