Shaved off a good chunk of the performance issues currently preventing the next release of CRUCS. It's not the real performance bottleneck (which has been identified) but these were easy changes that will still be nice to have later whereas the real fix is going to be somewhat more involved. Sadly, the profiler didn't show what I was hoping the bottleneck would have been as had what my first guess was been right it would have been a much easier fix.