mexp is the slowest part of the pipeline. Try to speed it up by paralellizing it. this adds a `pe' scripts that sits in front on N mexp childs and dispatch threads to them, while still outputting the unchanged lines for mkindex. Unscientific testing has shown that this effectively reduces the time for a full export, even if not linearly. (4 jobs cut the time in half, 8 jobs was just barely faster)