I would use L5 if possible, it has been optimized more compared to L4. Also, if your environment is local, there won't be a bootstrap/compiled.php generated. That 1.4 seconds may differ on a production server and other development setups. I would not worry about it, Laravel has proven itself on high performance websites already.
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