Stacker sounds like AJAX as it was done in 2006, except trigger by pushState. Maybe I'm misunderstanding it though. I'd be curious what the performance penalty is on mobile.
Well, it's really stacker + pushState + MAX cache.
But why would there be a performance penalty? Doesn't this result in the client doing _less_ work all around? Less work than the multi-page approach...and less work from the client-side templating approach, no?
Seems it's a highly refined version of what was done in the "old" days. I remember doing something similar for an old project in ASP.NET. (Well more similar to pjax)
As to performance on mobile, i think it might all depend on how large the html fragments are.