>> Do you have keyShadow set as indexed in the model? If not, you probably want 
>> to give that a try.
> 
> Yeah, the key is indexed (as I pointed out in the original post :-))

Heh, I re-read your post like four times and only just now saw that notation. 
Whoops.

>> If you have all of the keys up front (i.e. this is a big batch update or 
>> insert from the Web Service data), you might consider loading all of the 
>> records at once and then using a predicate to find what you need. Something 
>> like:
> 
> I do. I was thinking about this last night. I'm concerned that this may 
> require too much memory, and building a string of 6400 IDs for the query to 
> then format...sounds expensive.

It's possible that doing them all in one hit might be too much… As with most 
workloads, you may need to experiment to find a happy medium.

> Can one build IN queries directly?

I'm not entirely sure I know what you mean by 'directly' in this context.

> I currently download on a separate thread, then call back to the main thread 
> for each record. The intent was avoid doing Core Data work on a separate 
> thread, and keep the UI responsive. But that doesn't really enable the second 
> core, and it adds a lot of overhead. Maybe it's time to do the Core Data on 
> the second thread, too. Pretty sure that will require substantial changes to 
> the way my UI keeps up with updates.

GCD, along with the Core Data changes in iOS 5 and 6 for handling concurrency, 
make this much easier than it used to be (or at least cleaner and harder to 
screw up as badly).
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