WP SuperCache pretty much does a very good job at speeding up wordpress blogs. By preparing static HTML pages from the original PHP and Mysql executions, a big performance improvement is observed.
Misconception: I don’t need caching
For a typical theme in wordpress, it needs to execute about 35 SQLs and 1000 of lines of PHP logic to yield a single page. Sure, modern servers are fast enough to do all this in split seconds. But when it comes to handling large traffics, like from Digg, Reddit,etc. it could easily prove out to be an overkill for the CPU. Put a Xeon or Core i7, just nothing would be able to handle 1000 simultaneous hits, without delays.
WP SuperCache
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