Performance question: Partial or Data File? (SOLVED)

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Hello everyone!

I’m creating an encyclopedia of sorts and when mulling over how to handle references (just like the ones Wikipedia uses) I have two alternatives:

  1. Create a partial with the same filename/title/whatever as the content file (e.g. miles-davis.md and miles-davis.html)
  2. Create a datafile with the same filename/title/whatever as the content file (e.g. miles-davis.md and miles-davis.html)

Which one will load faster?

EDIT: Just realized markdown has support for footnotes. I do however have footnotes in a different div than .content so the question is still relevant.

EDIT 2: Just realized partial is the only way to go since I need to be able to use html pretty freely.