DomSqlMapBuilder.Configure slow?

[Okku Touronen]

Hello I have been using iBatis for Java and we have a product management system up and running. But due to some economical reasons we are about to change to .NET instead.   I have been toying around with iBatis for .NET for two days and have a simple application up and running with only a simple sqlMap with 4 properties.   But I have noticed that it takes up to 8 seconds for iBatis to run the Configure for this simple solution.   When I profile there have been 33 calls to System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer..ctor(class System.Type) taking 7,675 s.   How does this scale? In our product management system we have about 50 sqlMaps, some maps really big 30KB.   Yes I know this is a one time penalty but it just don’t feel right.   Any clues?   Regards Okku Touronen