The use of XML::LibXML in the quick search upgrade has made it apparent that a lot more speed could be squeezed out of the XML parsing that drives a lot of the Ergatis interface. This module should be incorporated in a couple of places to test the overall speedup and assess whether or not it is worth the development time to replace all or some of the current XML::Twig code.
Our LibXML approach has been rolled into the pipeline_list script without too many hitches. I am hoping to get some time to implement a similar approach to the component view page to reduce some of the workload when refreshing a components status.