Sorry, I\'ve been a bit incommunicado as of late.
1) Actually, I have been waiting for 10.2.5.

However, today\'s the first day I\'ve been able to sit down and do any work on getting a build up and running, so it\'ll take me some time to get the tests ready.
2) Once I\'m satisfied that it\'s running, I\'m going to have to muck about with some of the build process to do static linking of some of the external libraries into the CS plugins, so I\'m not distributing a million .so files along with the .csplugin files, and app-wrap the lot.
3) Then I\'m going to need to take the whole thing and move it over to the laptop to see how it behaves on a non-development system.
Those three stages will hopefully be done by tomorrow, and I\'ll have something ready for download and play.
At that time, I\'ll give you a better idea of what you can expect performance to be like, but again, I emphasise that until 10.3, the old rendering system won\'t get us fast-path in a seemingly large number of cases. Having said that, I\'ll do my best to try and figure out from feedback if additional MB releases can provide us with improved performance as I get feedback from people on their problems with MB on their system.
Thx.
:plur,
Greg