It is my understanding, as disk reads are so slow, that it is not a good idea to include multiple files. I always knew this, but I never really thought about it.
Rob, you will find people who religiously avoid includes have pages that include dozens and dozens of images there by negating the microseconds gained by not using includes. I will refrain from commenting on the rest of the mail primarily because i feel trying to shave a few milliseconds here or there by changing the includes, moving from double to single quotes etc are all futile efforts. Real speed and scalability comes from algorithms backed up by tight coding.
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