Does subscribing to multiple .gma addons increase loading time?

[Disposition]

For example, if I download a weapon pack with 10 guns, would that load faster than me downloading 10 separate gun addons?
In other words, are weapon, NPC, map,etc. packs more efficient than separate addons?

[Kingof🅱east]

It will depend on your hard drive. Typically loading larger single files is a bit faster (I'm not sure if this is reflected in the way the game mounts and loads from GMAs) but especially with your 1-of-10 or 10-of-1 example it'd most likely be a negligible difference.

[Kevlon]

Putting all add-ons in the same folder reduced my server startup time from 60+ seconds to 4

So probably

[c👌de_g🎷]

Mounting each gma takes an arbitrary but not negligible constant time factor, so it would be faster to use a pack as opposed to individual addons.

[TFA]

Indeed it should make loading faster, especially if your data is unfragmented. Actual time difference depends on the quantity of addons you're saving ( as stated before )

[The Gaben]

having lots of addons just makes the game really slow in general