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oracle merge operation hangs (or loops); query tuner claims it's a cartesian product operation

I have a Merge query (open to better suggestions) that seems to cause the server to hang. (I'm not sure what it's doing, but it pegs the CPU and never completes) When I run it through the query ...
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Oracle's Merge v. Select->Update/Insert

What is the faster statement? A MERGE or Select->Update/Insert depending on if it returns a value? I'm trying to optimize a database, but I haven't found any speed tests comparing the two. I found ...