> The speed difference for an individual page load might not be that much for a properly optimized site, but the overall resource usage will be much lower.
Is that what you believe or do you have benchmark results?
Is that what you believe or do you have benchmark results?
That serving static files use less resources than firing up PHP should hardly be surprising.
Sure, mod_lsapi and FastCGI are fast, and opcache is a godsend, but static files are still going to be faster than doing multiple MySQL queries, triggering plugins, rendering the HTML, doing whatever post-processing the plugins do, and then serving the result.