[eoc_Jason]

You have to remember though that vBulletin has to maintain backwards compability as most people are not running bleeding edge versions of PHP or MySQL. While search performance is a serious issue that the vB team has yet to address, I hope that they do offer some advanced choices for people that do know what they are doing. In short, it never hurts to hope, but don't hold you breath.

Probably next week since things will be slow and I'll be bored I'm going to download the 3.7 beta and take a look at the search code. But I'm not going to post anything based on 3.7 until it is actually released. I do plan on upgrading my forum to it as soon as it is stable / release, so you know I will be getting sphinx to work on it asap.