WordPress is slow by design! I have managed to create a blogging engine (in PHP) that it only takes 2ms to create the page dynamically (without caching) from the database + ~20ms for Nginx to serve it.
One might argue that my engine does not have as much features... and you are right.
One might argue that my engine does not have as much features... and you are right.
Incase you are interested: SunSed.com