Having said that, if the page is quite large and buffering is on, the end-user may think the page is responding poorly as they will not see any output in the browser until the page has finished. If this is relevant to your page, do a response.flush to flush the buffer every so often, at appropriate points in the code, to provide some feedback to the user on page progress.

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