I just spoke to Greg off-list and wanted to share my current thoughts on the list as well. In short, while we feel that the patch is in decent shape and seems to be performance neutral (or maybe even positive in some cases), it obviously doesn't accomplish $subject, and only a couple of folks have looked at it in depth. Furthermore, if this patch was committed and someone did find a problem, it'd be hard to justify anything except a revert. So, it's probably better to keep working on the full patch set and try to get $subject committed much earlier in the development cycle.
If someone thinks that we should seriously consider committing this for v19, please let us know. -- nathan
