Thread:Project:Support desk/Impact of having redirects/forwards

Hi, I was curious to know if having more redirects in a wiki affects the performance of a wiki. For eg. Currently I have about 3000 redirected pages in my wiki, however I haven't noticed any performance issue in loading these redirected pages. But if suppose the number of redirected pages increases to 20000 or probably 30000 (because we are thinking of renaming a lot of our pages). Will this impact the performance and page loading times. Does this add 'noticable' overhead on the processor and wait times for the end user?

Thanks in advance.

Arnab