Is Laravel really this slow?

Question

I just started using Laravel. I\'ve barely written any code yet, but my pages are taking nearly a second to load!

Answer 1

I found that biggest speed gain with Laravel 4 you can achieve choosing right session drivers;

Sessions "driver" file;

Requests per second:    188.07 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       26.586 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       5.317 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)


Session "driver" database;

Requests per second:    41.12 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       121.604 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       24.321 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)

Hope that helps