thanks for the responses. Typo seems to be getting less attention as of late, I myself have looked into it, but having to learn their TypoScript is a downside for me.
I am currently designing my own lightweight CMS, and will probably make use of both static and dynamically generated content depending on the type of site Im building with it.
It makes sense that static content is faster, as there is no need to query. I imagine for high traffic websites, static content will helpful on the database workload.