Disabling Viewers vs. Zooming up a level

If I have one component with many operators and I am trying to increase frame rate by disabling the viewers, is it equally as effective to just zoom up a level (where the individual viewers wouldn’t be seen rendering), or is there an advantage to disabling the viewers inside the component?

Usually it has the same effect.
If nothing is asking for an operator’s data, it won’t cook.

One rare case where disabling is better, is if it’s a node that will cook every frame regardless of being visible (example Audio Device OUT, etc).

Cheers
Rob