More than likely it's data access issues or app code. The actual asp.net isapi dll is pretty fast. Here's an example of ASP.net calling a vfp mtdll:
http://www.activevfp.com/avfpdemo2/default.aspx

>I'm not sure what is going on, but I have done a few things in Asp.net and I'm not impressed. First of all, I did some things that Claudio Lassala had done a demo on... writing text into a .jpg or .gif. using gdi... it takes 30 seconds to write "hello" on a 60k image..
>The same with the vfpoledb. It takes 12 seconds just to query 50 records in a table... ????
>
>I'm not sure if I have something wrong on my machine, I don't have v.1.1 or higher... for some reason it installs as:
>Microsoft.net/framework/v1.03705
>Every time I install v1.1 it just installs to the directory above. So I don't know if that is the problem. I use a 1.2G processor, have lots of RAM. I think .net is very elegant, but other than that, I'm not impressed.
>If you have any ideas, please let me know.
>thanks,
>Daniel