kSOAP on PalmOS Emulator SLOW compared to other emulators

Hi All,

We've found that our MIDlet takes a LOT longer to perform any given kSOAP
based round-trip to the server on the POSE than any other emulator. The only
actual wireless device we have to test on is a Palm Vx with an infrared
connection to a GPRS enabled mobile phone. Performance on the actual device
pretty much mirrors that of the PalmOS Emulator. So we don't know if the
POSE is the only emulator telling the real story (i.e. the other emulators
appear a lot faster than the actual device would be), or if there is
something internal to the MIDP for Palm implementation that is affecting
performance. I came across a post on JavaRanch where a developer had serious
performance issues relating to how he was reading data off the socket: when
he changed to reading chunks of bytes instead of byte by byte things sped up
dramatically. I haven't gone digging into kSOAP's HttpTransport class to see
how this level of plumbing is handled, but I'm hoping this is not necessary.

Any ideas?

Thanx,
Francois.