Re: Performance comparison
I have only a couple hours of experience with Vanilla but bbPress 0.9 is probably faster than any other forum software out there with the same features (that changes with bbPress 1.0 however).
bbPress 0.9 is so fast it doesn’t even have a page cache (yet) like wp-super-cache and doesn’t even need it. Just watch out with some old plugins that have performance issues and you’ll be fine.