diff --git a/manifest b/manifest
index 5a5dcce860..9a75dd0703 100644
--- a/manifest
+++ b/manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-C Performance\senhancement\sin\ssqlite3VdbeMemNulTerminate().
-D 2014-08-27T00:50:11.231
+C Factor\sout\sthe\sexception\spaths\sfrom\ssqlite3ValueToText()\sinto\sa\sseparate\nfunction\sso\sthat\sthe\smain\sroutine\sis\smuch\sfaster\sfor\sthe\scommon\scase\sof\nno\srequired\stype\sor\sencoding\sconversions.
+D 2014-08-27T03:28:50.316
 F Makefile.arm-wince-mingw32ce-gcc d6df77f1f48d690bd73162294bbba7f59507c72f
 F Makefile.in 5eb79e334a5de69c87740edd56af6527dd219308
 F Makefile.linux-gcc 91d710bdc4998cb015f39edf3cb314ec4f4d7e23
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ F src/vdbeInt.h df58400454823954cfb241e5858f07f37fc1fd78
 F src/vdbeapi.c cda974083d7597f807640d344ffcf76d872201ce
 F src/vdbeaux.c dba006f67c9fd1b1d07ee7fb0fb38aa1905161d1
 F src/vdbeblob.c 848238dc73e93e48432991bb5651bf87d865eca4
-F src/vdbemem.c 39cde2d8ddaa391055885caba9cb137ec2750474
+F src/vdbemem.c 9fc61d0860fd23399715fc436b2645154df08ce8
 F src/vdbesort.c f7f5563bf7d4695ca8f3203f3bf9de96d04ed0b3
 F src/vdbetrace.c 6f52bc0c51e144b7efdcfb2a8f771167a8816767
 F src/vtab.c 019dbfd0406a7447c990e1f7bd1dfcdb8895697f
@@ -1188,7 +1188,7 @@ F tool/vdbe_profile.tcl 67746953071a9f8f2f668b73fe899074e2c6d8c1
 F tool/warnings-clang.sh f6aa929dc20ef1f856af04a730772f59283631d4
 F tool/warnings.sh 0abfd78ceb09b7f7c27c688c8e3fe93268a13b32
 F tool/win/sqlite.vsix deb315d026cc8400325c5863eef847784a219a2f
-P f1f94a971e031e784f8c30a6faf829df58709329
-R a4b7581e490aa7d71b634e963210e5ae
+P f94cacc393e895522b92c9717c53357afc918d60
+R 0d26b1eecc3f76fc31005918debb0d62
 U drh
-Z d9bb31c0fee81f84beaf0ed2a801edba
+Z 03245edbdb5b11cf6bf42be492d2d8e5
diff --git a/manifest.uuid b/manifest.uuid
index 44b2a27745..40c815eed9 100644
--- a/manifest.uuid
+++ b/manifest.uuid
@@ -1 +1 @@
-f94cacc393e895522b92c9717c53357afc918d60
\ No newline at end of file
+1624916c6e9bc5dbcfa146b316a99ac8fecb13a9
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/vdbemem.c b/src/vdbemem.c
index 8457aa0da6..a76bd48865 100644
--- a/src/vdbemem.c
+++ b/src/vdbemem.c
@@ -919,6 +919,45 @@ int sqlite3VdbeMemFromBtree(
   return rc;
 }
 
+/*
+** The pVal argument is known to be a value other than NULL.
+** Convert it into a string with encoding enc and return a pointer
+** to a zero-terminated version of that string.
+*/
+SQLITE_NOINLINE const void *valueToText(sqlite3_value* pVal, u8 enc){
+  assert( pVal!=0 );
+  assert( pVal->db==0 || sqlite3_mutex_held(pVal->db->mutex) );
+  assert( (enc&3)==(enc&~SQLITE_UTF16_ALIGNED) );
+  assert( (pVal->flags & MEM_RowSet)==0 );
+  assert( (pVal->flags & (MEM_Null))==0 );
+  if( pVal->flags & (MEM_Blob|MEM_Str) ){
+    pVal->flags |= MEM_Str;
+    if( pVal->flags & MEM_Zero ){
+      sqlite3VdbeMemExpandBlob(pVal);
+    }
+    if( pVal->enc != (enc & ~SQLITE_UTF16_ALIGNED) ){
+      sqlite3VdbeChangeEncoding(pVal, enc & ~SQLITE_UTF16_ALIGNED);
+    }
+    if( (enc & SQLITE_UTF16_ALIGNED)!=0 && 1==(1&SQLITE_PTR_TO_INT(pVal->z)) ){
+      assert( (pVal->flags & (MEM_Ephem|MEM_Static))!=0 );
+      if( sqlite3VdbeMemMakeWriteable(pVal)!=SQLITE_OK ){
+        return 0;
+      }
+    }
+    sqlite3VdbeMemNulTerminate(pVal); /* IMP: R-31275-44060 */
+  }else{
+    sqlite3VdbeMemStringify(pVal, enc, 0);
+    assert( 0==(1&SQLITE_PTR_TO_INT(pVal->z)) );
+  }
+  assert(pVal->enc==(enc & ~SQLITE_UTF16_ALIGNED) || pVal->db==0
+              || pVal->db->mallocFailed );
+  if( pVal->enc==(enc & ~SQLITE_UTF16_ALIGNED) ){
+    return pVal->z;
+  }else{
+    return 0;
+  }
+}
+
 /* This function is only available internally, it is not part of the
 ** external API. It works in a similar way to sqlite3_value_text(),
 ** except the data returned is in the encoding specified by the second
@@ -931,38 +970,16 @@ int sqlite3VdbeMemFromBtree(
 */
 const void *sqlite3ValueText(sqlite3_value* pVal, u8 enc){
   if( !pVal ) return 0;
-
   assert( pVal->db==0 || sqlite3_mutex_held(pVal->db->mutex) );
   assert( (enc&3)==(enc&~SQLITE_UTF16_ALIGNED) );
   assert( (pVal->flags & MEM_RowSet)==0 );
-
+  if( (pVal->flags&(MEM_Str|MEM_Term))==(MEM_Str|MEM_Term) && pVal->enc==enc ){
+    return pVal->z;
+  }
   if( pVal->flags&MEM_Null ){
     return 0;
   }
-  assert( (MEM_Blob>>3) == MEM_Str );
-  pVal->flags |= (pVal->flags & MEM_Blob)>>3;
-  ExpandBlob(pVal);
-  if( pVal->flags&MEM_Str ){
-    sqlite3VdbeChangeEncoding(pVal, enc & ~SQLITE_UTF16_ALIGNED);
-    if( (enc & SQLITE_UTF16_ALIGNED)!=0 && 1==(1&SQLITE_PTR_TO_INT(pVal->z)) ){
-      assert( (pVal->flags & (MEM_Ephem|MEM_Static))!=0 );
-      if( sqlite3VdbeMemMakeWriteable(pVal)!=SQLITE_OK ){
-        return 0;
-      }
-    }
-    sqlite3VdbeMemNulTerminate(pVal); /* IMP: R-31275-44060 */
-  }else{
-    assert( (pVal->flags&MEM_Blob)==0 );
-    sqlite3VdbeMemStringify(pVal, enc, 0);
-    assert( 0==(1&SQLITE_PTR_TO_INT(pVal->z)) );
-  }
-  assert(pVal->enc==(enc & ~SQLITE_UTF16_ALIGNED) || pVal->db==0
-              || pVal->db->mallocFailed );
-  if( pVal->enc==(enc & ~SQLITE_UTF16_ALIGNED) ){
-    return pVal->z;
-  }else{
-    return 0;
-  }
+  return valueToText(pVal, enc);
 }
 
 /*