[aidos]

Surely the only variable that changed was the entire stack? I'm assuming your static generator basically means you're firing a bunch of bytes, probably sitting in RAM out over a socket. No CPU/processing involved, no dynamic anything.

I'll be the last person to defend Drupal, but I don't think it's fair to say that Drupal was the only variable that changed. What about the amount of stuff coming off disk each time, the removal of an interpreted language, the database access?