It’s still an http request, believe it or not haha.
In low latency situations like cordova, there’s hardly an impact, however I run a software set that is in the middle of no where and the internet is horrible, so by combining all the angular templates into one and then cache them, I save the request from being started for every template.
It does this for javascript files as well, so if you have 100 different javascript files it has to make an http request via the browser for each one of those.
Something we normally don’t have to think about this day of age, thankfully