Scott Sanders (stonecobra) has published some benchmarks for the shiny new Tango XML work that's been happening.  This is what happens when Kris gets involved in some optimization of code.  Sick, crazy-fast things start coming out.

For those of you who don't know, Tango is a standard library for the D Programming Language, and is an alternative to Phobos, the out-of-the-box standard library. 

I would love to see the other languages like C++ and Java put their best parsers up against this.  I think array slicing in D should soundly trounce them.

EDIT: Scott has fixed the graphs to show MB/sec as the metric.  I fixed some links in this post.