I’m a Cakephp developer but my colleagues say that it is slow compared to Codeigniter and I must say that there shouldn’t be too much of a difference since you can use cache to speed things up.
Is the speed that noticeable with Cakephp and Codeigniter and is it a significant issue over selecting CI over Cake or should I not bother too much about this?
Speed, does not suppose to be the key in your decision of your framework.
number of features that are built in with the framework should be one of your first priorities.
this is for example some thing that will help you speed up things and not develop from scratch
Community size and development life cycle of the FW are also important.
You should always remember that choosing a framework is very subjective and depend on your needs.
So my opinion here that there is not one sharp answer, it is always about trade off’s in life.