Performance: Loading many (smaller) views Vs fewer (larger) views

[eluser]sprise[/eluser]
I did a small test with 1-9 views loaded, first calling 3 views 3x. Load time didn't change.

Then I called 9 separate views, it did take an extra tenth of a second (this is on my local and no caching).

My best guess would be that it's not so much the calling of the load function, but just the cumulative amount of data to be processed.

ETA: I also break out into Header, footer, content. I wouldn't think twice about adding a few more pieces to it (like you have with Toplinks).