Making it a goal now ensures that we *can* take our time "doing it right," *before* it becomes an immediate need. A comprehensive test suite is a must for this, and I know a lot of work has been put into improving the one we have over the past few weeks. And, of course, there's still room for optimization in the current codebase.
Fully agreed, I just hope the whole doesn't disappear in some colossal programming language war ( and that I haven't just started one right now ).