title: Do Redundant Namespaces incur any overhead
body: <p>Other than maintenance complexity (and I would argue there is little to none), and the fact that it is not a clean solution (this I agree with) does importing redundant namespaces in a .NET class incur any overhead in terms of memory/space/etc.?</p>
  
  <p>For instance, if I import My.Namespace but do not invoke <em>any</em> of its functionality, is the Visual Studio compiler smart enough not to package the corresponding binaries when my application is being deployed?</p>