[FX.php List] Do non-field objects on layout affect performance?

[Tim 'Webko' Booth]

On 03/05/2008, at 6:41 AM, Joel Shapiro wrote:

> Hi all
>
> This may be a dumb question... but there *are* no dumb questions,  
> right? ( ahem  ;-)
>
> I know it's important not to have more fields on a web-accessed  
> layout than will be used for those web calls.
>
> Is there *any* impact on performance caused by having non-field  
> objects on a web-accessed layout?  (text objects, graphic objects  
> (boxes, lines), colors...)

As only data can be returned in the array from the layout, and it's  
queried through XML, I would assume that there is no overhead from  
having non-data objects on the layout... If I get the time, I may well  
create a layout with a huge number of objects and do a side-by-side  
test...

Webko