Does having a big hosts file slow down your network access at all?

[MikeHunt79]

I recently found that spybot has made my hosts file so that my machine will not access nasty sites, here's a bit of it's handywork:

# Start of entries inserted by Spybot - Search & Destroy
127.0.0.1    www.007guard.com
127.0.0.1    007guard.com
127.0.0.1    008i.com
127.0.0.1    www.008k.com
127.0.0.1    008k.com
127.0.0.1    www.00hq.com
127.0.0.1    00hq.com
127.0.0.1    010402.com
127.0.0.1    www.032439.com
127.0.0.1    032439.com
127.0.0.1    www.0scan.com
127.0.0.1    0scan.com
127.0.0.1    1000gratisproben.com
127.0.0.1    www.1000gratisproben.com
127.0.0.1    1001namen.com
127.0.0.1    www.1001namen.com
127.0.0.1    www.100888290cs.com
127.0.0.1    100888290cs.com

Now, this is all well and good, but does this slow things up at all? My hosts file is now 11,358 lines long!

 

[MikeHunt79]

I already use no-script, I think I'm going to delete the entries from my hosts files and stop worrying about the speed difference. I can't say I've noticed any difference while browsing, downloading and gaming tho.