Whay does SOAP take so long to convert Sugar response into xml?

[elRey]

I've run some tests and with ~300 contacts I know soap gets sugar's reponse in ~4sec and then takes ~45sec to serialize
that data into xml to send out.

45sec for php to loop thru 300 records and genereate xml? Is this normal?
I can't see why it would be any different than looping thru 300 to genterate a table with class/id.javascript actions/links etc.

Rey

[kpit]

How many database round trips is your request taking to get the data? This might be one of the issues. also look at how long the queries are taking in the database. Look in the sugarcrm log to see what is happening. turn the debug level for logging to see what is happening at that time.