Loading of IBatis

[cheng li]

Hi,   I’ve trying out IBatis.NET and NHibernate the last few days. Sofar I’ve a small preference for IBatis because I like to tweak my own SQL code and the sourcecode of IBatis is for me better to grasp. NHibernate seems a way bit too much for what I want to do, simply persisting domain objects.   The only problem that I have is the loading time, it takes about 5 seconds to load a sqlmap and from the mail archive I understand this is caused by the fact that IBatis.NET uses XML serializer and deserializers a lot to parse the sqlmap config file. Are there any tips and tricks to speed up the loading time.   Cheers, Cheng