Any plans to speed up indexing/deduplication?

It's been discussed again and again on the forums that indexing the storage node is painfully slow. Numerous users have also shown how it's not slow because it is disk I/O, memory, or CPU bound. While the indexing occurs most machines spend a dismaying amount of time idling, even if you increase process priorities form the storage node SQL server, etc.

So given all of this, will the dev team be devoting anytime to profiling indexing performance, in order to speed it up? Further, what would the time frame for such a fix likely be? It would be a cool feature if it worked.