[Lunatixz]

I can confirm "slowing down" the channel building process on 0.2.4. I set up all APIs and reset my 100 channel installation. Instead of taking less than one minute, it took one hour.
Disabled them again, they are not that important to warrant this delay.

I have also switched over to MC2XML for my German EPG guide. It's much better, free (!) and much faster. You can automatize that thing beautifully.

The slow down in a one time process and depends on your xmltv file size, if you follow my instructions for limiting grabbing data it greatly cuts down on the time...