title: Magento SOAP v1 vs. v2 performance
body: <p>I am in the process of using VB.NET to work with the Magento API. I was using SOAP v1 successfully until I ran into a call that needs an associative array. After a day or so of no luck I decided to try v2 which has all the objects I need. v2 works but is very, very slow. To update one stock item inventory it took roughly a minute and a half to login and do the update as opposed to maybe less than 10 seconds with v1. That reminded me why I chose v1 in the first place.</p>
  
  <p>My question is if there is anyway to improve the performance on v2. I can't imagine there is to the extent I need it but I thought I'd ask. I already have caching enabled. The alternative of getting v1 to accept an associative array seems to be a challenge, if possible.</p>