[@howtogeek Member 17 years, 5 months ago]

That doesn’t seem too difficult to believe, I ran bbpress through phped profiler and it looks like the templating makes it slightly slower than if you directly outputted the code like most other forums do.

Which does make sense… what I’ve been considering is making a theme that doesn’t use all the filters but directly outputs the data.

That theme author should seriously consider moderating his forum… there’s nothing but spam on it.