I was thinking this exact thing while reading his article (losing the benefit of caching external files locally). It would be my guess that this does improve pe

I was thinking this exact thing while reading his article (losing the benefit of caching external files locally). It would be my guess that this does improve performance for single requests (like an article that gets popular on HN...), but as you said, reading 50 pages would be worse. Still it's very cool, especially for a minimalist blog.