Performance Questions

[eluser]xwero[/eluser]
Every routing on top of the standard controller/method routing is a small bump in the road. If there are enough small bumps you will drive slower not to feel so much trembling. So no routing or redirects are better than a whole bunch of them.

The bigger the file the longer it takes to get read by php. This may not be noticeable but the more users visit that same page the faster they will start to feel it.

But the question is how far are you willing to go to generate everything dynamically? People use cache software and distributed storage on heavy traffic sites. If you want a fast site from the start create as many static snippets as possible and only glue them together instead of accessing the database every time. Of course the content has to be as static as possible for this.