Should I use a framework or should I use plain vanilla PHP code?

gingerjoos

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I am looking to start a site which will be PHP based (running on the LAMP stack). I have experience with Drupal 5&6. However, I feel that Drupal is somewhat slow(bad performance). It does allow me to build something really quickly and it is very flexible. But I want performance too. Should I look at some other framework/CMS or should I just go ahead and spend a lot of time writing raw PHP code?

The site is intended to be a high traffic site with a lot of (registered) users. It will probably have a lot of content in the DB(=queries). So I suppose a lot of caching will have to be done.
 
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