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 dispatch cycle takes too long to make it a viable solution for production environments.

I'm hoping that this question will inspire people to share their tips, tricks and hacks for speeding up CakePHP performance.

The blog post I most often refer to is here, http://www.pseudocoder.com/archives/8-ways-to-speed-up-cakephp-apps Which has great tips, but there must be more out there!

So please feel free to share your thoughts on making this excellent framework that much more nimble!