Hi Ben,

I just did a little digging into this. I think that the performance may be significantly degraded if you are running in dev mode, since we end up checking the file system a bunch of times to see if the XML metadata has changed.

If you're running in dev mode, it would be interesting to know if it's faster in production mode. If so, we could potentially be less aggressive and not check the file system if we've already checked in the last few seconds. If not, we can investigate further and track down the source of the slowness.

Thanks,
Josh