While drupal is slow, it is a CMS. How do you do CMS with static html pages? e.g. authentication, classify the content for various access rights, serving dynami

While drupal is slow, it is a CMS. How do you do CMS with static html pages? e.g. authentication, classify the content for various access rights, serving dynamic book-module/forum/wiki/nodes/editor/video etc? I'm not impressed by Drupal's preformance even on a low-traffic site, but then again I could not find a "better" CMS yet.