How to Improve WCF Data Services Performance

Question

I\'m new to WCF Data Services so I\'ve been playing. After some initial tests I am disappointed by the performance of my test data service.

I realize that because a

Answer 1

Consider deploying as a windows service instead? IIS may have ASAPI filters, rewrite rules, etc that it runs through. even if none of these are active, the IIS pipeline is so long, something may slow you down marginally.

a service should give you a good baseline of how long it takes the request to run, be packed, etc, without the IIS slowdowns