I\'ve been a keen fan and user of CakePHP for about 2.5 years now, but the main bugbear that most fellow developers level at the framework is that it\'s slow, and the dispat
Some further good tips here including using a modified router::url helper for performance as well as some common sense:
router::url
http://www.chainfire.eu/articles/76/CakePHP_and_performance_for_noobs_/