Better Performance for 1 long clip or multiple short clips?

[paralion]

So, what is better performance-wise:
1 long clip, that has different sequences, and I would assign different in-and-outs to use it multiple times, or many short clips that are accessed seperately.
(My thought is the first method could be better, since the clip might be loaded into the RAM, doesn't have to access the harddisk from that moment?)

I am sure one of you great people have already figured this out?

cheers, p!

[Arvol]

I vote 1 clip.