*Please note:* A a similar change was attempted in PR 5005, but it was subsequently backed out in PR 5069. Unfortunately I don't think anyone ever tried to debug *exactly* why it didn't work, since it ought to have worked, and having re-tested this now I'm not able to reproduce the problem any more. However, given just how inefficient the current code is, with thousands of strictly unnecessary function calls for each `find` invocation, I'd really like to try fixing this again.