While intuitively I want to agree that Zend Framework seems like way too much of a resource hog to be in production for a site with even moderate amounts of traffic, I read an article earlier today from Joel Spolsky about performance vs. features which was good food for thought (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/18.html).
Based on that read, I tend to think in the immediate future of ZF should concentrate on ease of development, but of course, there needs to be balance in the longer run.
I agree that it would be excellent to have two versions of the framework. Perhaps something like the Smarty "compiler" would be a good approach for production use, where code generation is used to streamline the original ZF source files.
Performance counterpoint
While intuitively I want to agree that Zend Framework seems like way too much of a resource hog to be in production for a site with even moderate amounts of traffic, I read an article earlier today from Joel Spolsky about performance vs. features which was good food for thought (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/18.html).
Based on that read, I tend to think in the immediate future of ZF should concentrate on ease of development, but of course, there needs to be balance in the longer run.
I agree that it would be excellent to have two versions of the framework. Perhaps something like the Smarty "compiler" would be a good approach for production use, where code generation is used to streamline the original ZF source files.