Children or Triangles

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Does anyone have experience with this....

I am building a model, it's going to be approx 5000 tris.

There are 250 pieces in the model, that are glued together as children. With in the modeling program Truespace, I can Boolean Add these together to form one complete model...But when I do that, TrueSpace and Blitz Reports a lot more triangles. So my question is this... Would an Object with 250 children be more GPU intensive than a model that has more Triangles.