I am making an application where the speed of the program is absolutely critical (milliseconds count). The program will, in essence, be browsing the web, and processing the data it gets from web pages (no, this isnt a crawler or anything malicious I promise) and then taking actions based on what it finds. It has to do with getting world news.

Milliseconds count -- what will be faster. VB6 or VB.NET. I don't care about ease of coding or anything along those lines, I just need the most efficent way of doing this.