I just downloaded fresh copies of CodeIgniter-2.2.1.zip and CodeIgniter-3.0rc3.zip.
Installed them both on my box NO changing anything 100% default.
Ran ab -n 1000 -c10 http:... on both a few time to heat the opcache.
CI3 might be a little slower but nothing I'm to worried about.
Something that small could have been from me switched windows on my local box or something.
It's so close it's not even worth my time to push the testing up to my servers.
My results are below.
PHP Version 5.5.17
Results:
CI2
Server Software: Apache/2.2.29
Server Hostname: ci2.localtest.me
Server Port: 80
Document Path: /
Document Length: 1925 bytes
Concurrency Level: 10
Time taken for tests: 0.331 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 0
Total transferred: 2223000 bytes
HTML transferred: 1925000 bytes
Requests per second: 3023.65 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 3.307 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 0.331 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 6564.04 [Kbytes/sec] received
CI3
Server Software: Apache/2.2.29
Server Hostname: ci3.localtest.me
Server Port: 80
Document Path: /
Document Length: 1902 bytes
Concurrency Level: 10
Time taken for tests: 0.354 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 0
Total transferred: 2215000 bytes
HTML transferred: 1902000 bytes
Requests per second: 2821.74 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 3.544 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 0.354 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 6103.67 [Kbytes/sec] received