listcontent modification

[baresi]

I posted this in the support forum but it may really belong here, if necessary mods can delete my original thread

I have spoken to Ted on IRC and he spoke of possible improvements in 2.0 and I searched various stuff here like increasing php memory, uninstalling modules, hierarchy...the first two I did and looks like the load is slightly better, hierarchy I should do but I noticed that listcontent was slow even above ~100 pages so collapsing won't help me that much because I need at least one parent open which will contain 100 or more pages anyhow.
But php and module stuff aside which help what I am looking for is to make my listcontent.php shorter, maybe adding pagination (looking at listcontent.php it existed at one point?), I have a few hundred pages now but the site will grow, so far in my tests the pages created (~10 queries) load ok, but its listcontent.php that seems to be the issue. I am willing to put this in the commercial help wanted forum but before I go too far I want to know if anybody can help. Thanx

cmsms 1.2.3
linux,php 5.2.4,mysql 5.0.45