Debate on effect of single large clip vs smaller clips

Here's the situation: I shot a competition in 1 take per tape, no breaks, in HD. I have an external drive with plenty of room. I'd love to just feed these tapes to the monster and walk away to do something else. However, a friend of mine says that will slow everything down during editing and that I need to digitize individual performances as smaller clips. On the other hand, someone else told me the size of the source file doesn't matter.
Since I never stopped the camera, there are no time code breaks to automatically separate the files. My plan was to feed them in, then quickly go through and make subclips. I would edit based on the subclips.
Has anyone tried both techniques and found any difference in rendering or exporting time? Thanks.

FCE is a non-destructive editor. Whether you have a bunch of small imported clips or one big chunk will not make any difference to the performance.
You could save some drive space by capturing judiciously. Your call on that.
There's no need to make sub-clips unless there is a special need.
Open one big clip in the Viewer from the Browser, set an In/Out point and edit that to the Timeline.
Repeat the same procedure using different In/Out points from the same big clip and so on.
Non-destructive means you call up the media stored on the Scratch Disc. No media is duplicated in the Browser, Viewer or Timeline. All things here are file-paths to the actual media on the Scratch Disc.
Al

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Beginning of clip | a |:     100%
End of clip       | a |:     132%
Beginning of clip | b |: (100%)
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End of clip       | c |:     230%
Beginning of clip | d |: (100%)
End of clip       | d |: (100%)
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