shopping for a scalable php framework

[eluser]kucerar[/eluser]
[quote author="edoornav" date="1192188666"]
static hello world page -> 6500 rps
<?php print "hello world" ?> -> 4000 rps
retrieve one db row -> 1750 rps

CI hello world -> 170 rps
CI retrieve one db row -> 106 rps

[/quote]

Content caching solutions aside, this is kind of shocking. I would expect these kinds of numbers from Symphony, not CI. Can you turn on the benchmarking class to find out what's taking all the time?

Thx
-R