Daevid Vincent wrote: > > The pages are significantly slower than straight PHP by orders of > magnitude: http://paul-m-jones.com/?p=315 > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001198.html I know this blog isn't specifically about PHP but he makes a good general point that can be applied to this conversation very well. For those who don't want to read the article it's about the cost of time spent programming vs hardware. Even if a framework will run slower than raw HTML or a simple PHP page on it's own, if that framework saves you a significant amount of time developing, and the server your running the application on isn't as responsive as you like, maybe it would be cheaper just to add another server and load balance the two. A lot of frameworks include stuff exactly for load balancing making your whole application a lot more flexible and able to withstand a lot more growth without you having to write any extra code.
