I am so tired of reading complaints about PHP performance only to realize that the author uses some bloated, over-engineered framework like Cake or (much worse)

I am so tired of reading complaints about PHP performance only to realize that the author uses some bloated, over-engineered framework like Cake or (much worse) library like Smarty. What do you expect? Yes, high-level design matters. Ever since I switched to my own framework in 2005, most of the pages on my websites generate in less than .1 second, and that's without extensive caching, often on cheap VPS. There is nothing fancy about it, just simple, straightforward system design that doesn't fight the language and pretend like I'm coding Java.