opinions

While searching for how to integrate drupal with a "light" webserver called Hiawatha, I find this comment intriguing:

http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/forum/topic/222

In one of the comments, Hugo Leisink says that he doesn't recommend drupal because of the "ugly" code.
He says "On a simple page that showed a list of 15 items, Drupal needed more that 400 database queries."

I know drupal does these queries so it can do logging and for other status information, but I think you can disable these logging features.