This incorporates all the precedeing patches and emailed suggestions
and the results of the performance testing I posted last week. I
would like to get this tested on as many platforms as possible so
I can verify it went in correctly (as opposed to the horrorshow
last time I sent in a patch).

Once this is confirmed, I will make a tarball of files that can be
dropped into a 6.3.2 source tree as a few people have asked for
this in 6.3.2 as well.

David Gould