As you may already be aware, there is an article on msdn about the great performance improvements we made in the V2 xml stack. This is a pretty big event for the team, since increasing performance was one of the big goals of this release.
While I posted this to give a shout-out to the team for the great perf work in they did for Whidbey, I want to take a minute to point out another interesting part of the article...