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Static pages faster than dynamic pages: why?

 
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So it goes that static content is faster than dynamic, why is that so. I believe if there is lot of static content then that will involve disk reads and as such performance may not be exactly fast.
Looking for your view.
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Vikram
 
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You can cache static pages just like you might cache dynamic ones.
 
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