What is Lazy Loading?

Question

What is Lazy Loading?

[Edit after reading a few answers] Why do people use this term so often?

Say you just use a ASP/ADO recordset and load it with data or

Answer 1

According to geeksforgeeks, Lazy loading is a software design pattern where the initialization of an object occurs only when it is actually needed and not before to preserve the simplicity of usage and improve performance.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/lazy-loading-design-pattern/