ng-include rendering slowness

[meaganc]

We have been using ng-include for partials in our new angular app, but we had to remove them because they were loading so slowly. This had significant visual impact on page load. Here's a great example of this issue:
http://plnkr.co/edit/dTUUPhsVrCbeSIjZzqmx?p=preview

How can we help address this? Is there something we're missing?

[btford]

you can inline the templates as part of your build process.

[Narretz]

(Don't mind m, just cleaning old issues)
This is definitely faster in new versions (1.4 and beyond, approx 50% faster).
Inlining the templates is also a good idea, as it removes the async behavior.
If you only want to include so that you can structure your templates better, simply use a directive with a templateUrl. This is almost as fast as inlined templates, see http://plnkr.co/edit/5ChZjFBq2iPGJEaGHkZY?p=preview

Finally, if you have 5000 page elements, then you will almost always run into perf problems.