Drupal has always performed like shit. 10/sec is actually pretty good for Drupal It's only good for managing static content, the only way you get any sort of performance out of it is super aggressive caching.
PHP is a slow abomination. The entirety of Drupal and all modules have to be bootstrapped and run on every request. It runs far too many SQL queries and those queries look atrocious (nested selects, tons of joins, etc).
Same with Magento Commerce. I was always shocked at just how slow it is.
PHP is a slow abomination. The entirety of Drupal and all modules have to be bootstrapped and run on every request. It runs far too many SQL queries and those queries look atrocious (nested selects, tons of joins, etc).
Same with Magento Commerce. I was always shocked at just how slow it is.