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I've got to say that I have no problem with my text messages, the only programs I have noticed to be slow are widgets, and then loading showcase to close out programs, of course I added showcase though and that problem exists within showcase by the developers own admission. The memory getting higher than previously irks me because the less memory in use the better the battery life, but I have to say I don't have nearly the same kind of sluggish program loading as other roms.

Though the extendir.dll should improve most sluggishness you might be experiencing, it has been listed to increase performance up to 12x's in certain scenarios, it does this by essentially having a listing of all windows files and necessary files, so that it can pull quickly from a list as opposed to actually loading each file every time. This is a ruff explanation but covers the general concept I think.