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blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> Sun has posted an article claiming that Java is \<a title="http://java.sun.com/performance/reference/whitepapers/XML_Test-1_0.pdf" href="http://java.sun.com/performance/reference/whitepapers/XML_Test-1_0.pdf"" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">faster than .NET for processing XML.... via
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It's quite possible that Sun has achieved major improvements to their XML processing, since it used to be quite poor compared to .NET 1.0's performance. The competitive marketplace in action...