on point #1, the person prefers punbb because it is "blazingly fast". obviously, this is very true. however, vanilla is really fast as well. i have been enjoying the load times. :-)
Why not? skins can be interchangaeble... It you like the looks, why not use it on other software?? I wish Windows Vista would look more like Vanilla :P
In this case it's not about the database queries, but the use of classes and objects. PHP works best with straight-forward scripting. Vanilla uses classes and creates new instances everytime it requires such an object. This slows down the parser which results in a slower page build.
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