Question

I’m thinking about frameworks. I know they make life a lot easier, but as far as I understand they also significantly burden the server, don’t they?

I’m looking for some kind of benchmarks, famous frameworks to basic php comparisons.

I have a will to create a kind of my own framework – a way simplier (no ORM and other cool stuff, only main ideas), but more flexible and faster.

Maybe the main question I’m interested in – How slower frameworks are comparing to basic framework-like PHP code with classes and other stuff, but with no ORM.

I’m not really sure whether I made myself clear – sorry for that.

Answer 1

This benchmark might interest you : Labor Day Benchmarks ; and here is an update : A Siege On Benchmarks.

It kinda compares basic-html, basic-php, and some well-known frameworks.

Still, I cannot post such an answer without saying something like this (quoting Survie the Deep End’s introduction ; emphasis mine) :

Base performance is something you must
take with a pinch of salt. Since every
framework has varying requirements and
feature mixes it’s hard (many would
say even pointless) to compare them on
an equal footing. The main point I’d
make is that judicious use of caching
and optimisation eliminates most base
performance advantages any framework
has over any other framework. Don’t
neglect that point please!

In the end of the day (or, when working on a big project), what really makes a difference, at least for “normal projects” is how long you need to develop what your client asked.

And using a big framework with great features reduces development time much — and facilitates maintenance even more !

Even if it means you’ll need one more server : hardware is pretty cheap, compared to a couple of days/weeks of developper-time !