Are Symphony and CakePHP too slow to be usable?

Question

Are Symphony and CakePHP too slow to be usable? Are Symphony and CakePHP too slow to be usable?

Answer 1

Whilst frameworks can add a little processing overhead to your requests issues are more likely to be elsewhere such as at the database layer. Ensure that you do caching of results, offload long-running processes to queues and you should be fine.

Is there a particular aspect that you're worried about?

Answer 2

(do you mean Symfony?)

Both frameworks have broad adoption, so literally 'no'. They aren't the fastest frameworks out there but they will be fine for most applications. At my work, we have legacy applications built in CakePHP that power relatively high load sites without too much trouble.

As Alistair says, good practices like caching and database optimisations will probably have a much larger impact on your application's performance.