You also have MultiCriteria / MultiQuery support for executing several queries in the same database-roundtrip, utilizing 1st level cache efficently.
For executing several sql quires in one trip to the data base you can use futures. And also ado.net batch size can trigger NHibernate to join several db calls into one.
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