Quick elastic time question (regarding disbale / commit / Consolidate)

[AURORA4DTH]

I am wondering if anyone knows why after I am finished making all of my thousands of usual edits to a song if i elect to commit the elastic audio by disabling it, it takes a very long time, however if I just simply Consolidate the track while in elastic audio then disable it takes no time at all or a small fraction of the time from doing it the other way. is there a right way? Seesm to work exactly the same by consolidating and then talking it out of elastic audio. I use elastic audio all the time for years and years and never seem to understand this.

[AURORA4DTH]

Any thoughts or opinions on this? I did some searching on this and never really found a definitive answer.

[DDBass]

Bummer that no one replied to this. I have wondered the same thing and have not found any definitive answers.

[albee1952]

Just guessing here, but I would expect it to take longer to rewrite dozens of small audio files, vs. 1 large one. A more important question is; does it make a difference in the quality of the result?