autoeventwireup performance cost

Question

I have been looking at improving my asp.net page performance, is it worth changing autoeventwireup from true to false and adding the event handlers or is the performance pen

Answer 1

The wireup isn't done at compile-time. It's done at runtime. As described in this article:

http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2006/02/16/2914.aspx

There IS a performance penalty because of the calls to CreateDelegate which must be made every time a page has been created. The performance hit is probably negligible, but it does exist.