Okay, first of all, sorry about the attention grabbing title.
Second, I'm not sure what the correct subforum for this problem might be, so I just chose to put it under Getting Started (although by no means is this a 'getting started' kind of problem).
To get to the point, I work at a business that does a lot of ASP.NET development. And there is one persistent problem in all those sites. They are all _slow_. Now I know "slow" can be a relative term. If you have a T1 line and a quad core machine, there is no such thing as "slow".
To give you a frame of reference, PHP sites are fast. Even plain old CGI is fast.
Even though the developers may not be using any fancy AJAX stuff, ASP.NET is still slower.
Even this very site (forums.asp.net) loaded the editor area slowly when I wanted to type this post.
I'll give you an example. We have an ASP.NET website, that works as ...
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