ah, i hear ya... no i wasnt active when cue scene was shaping up but i did built sites back then from scratch. the rule of thumb is anything made from scratch will be faster than using frameworks, unless you reach the level of traffic and the amount of traffic as the current cuenation
note than the current /dev is still in development and all queries load mysql records recursively 3+ levels deep, and has all debugging and buffering enabled. of course once the php logic is complete we'll be disabling debugging and optimizing mysql queires
oh and i agree 100% on not using tables. that /dev uses tables only for displaying records that have rows/columns simply because they are easy to implement. once i all data manipulation is in place i can opt out for a more fitting solutions
