Simple is hard
Check out these slides by Rasmus Lerdorf presented at FrOSCon 2008:
http://talks.php.net/show/froscon08
Yes, PHP frameworks do suck in terms of performance. CakePHP is the slowest while Zend Framework seems to be the most complex, in terms of include dependencies.


This talk was also held by Rasmus on Drupalcon 2008 in Szeged. Here is the video:
http://www.archive.org/details/simple_is_hard
Comment by Felix — November 3, 2008 @ 02:40