[ic] flypage / IC efficiency?

[IC]

Hi folks,

I've noticed that IC pages take much longer to render than similar
oscommerce pages on the same server, looking at the standard flypage code it
seems to run an sql query on every item or item-field tag, is this correct?

On some of our flypages we call the item-field tag a lot of times, wouldn't
it be more efficient to have a single query tag with select * from products
where sku = 'somesku' then use sql-param down the page?

Regards,
Andy