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As felix says, there shouldn't really be a performance difference, since processing won't be done unless a particular topic is subscribed to. It would be possible to add arguments to openni.launch to disable launching of certain nodelets (and therefor get rid of certain topics), but there are already a fair number of arguments to the launchfiles and I'd rather not add more.

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