ZF2 Performance Issues Sans APC or equivalent?

[ndamico]

Just ramping up on ZF2, trying my best to stick with the onboarding process.

Latest issue/topic.., performace. Using the getting started tutorial with the skeleton app and album example I am getting horrific page load times.

Right now for the hello world index page for the skeleton app its around 3 seconds consistently..., the album index (list view) can take anywhere from 4-8 seconds on average.

My environment is:

WIndows 7
Apache 2.4
PHP 5.4.8

Right now running no APC or equivalent.., is that the issue? Is it required to get any sort of decent performance (even for skeleton app) that running a cache is needed?

Or is there any other issues I could be experiencing with my setup?

[kentatzend]

When you use ANY php framework something like APC or Zend Optimizer + is critical for performance.