"Save as..." hang on long PDF with annots.api plugin enabled

Hi,
I am not a regular Acrobat user but I have been attempting to use it recently to process some fairly long PDF files with up to 20K pages which weigh in at 50MB. I thought I'd share something interesting I have discovered with the community.
What I found is that the larger the file (not sure whether it is the number of pages, number of bytes or something else) the longer it takes for the "Save as..." dialog box to appear. Then, when the filename has been chosen (just saving as a normal PDF) the amount of time before the progress bar appears also seems to get longer for longer files.
In fact while the save as box is getting ready and while the progress bar is not yet showing, Adobe Acrobat seems to hang and stop responding. We found that disabling plugins entirely (by shift clicking to open the document) eliminated entirely even for large documents. We then narrowed it down to a specific plugin called annots.api.
My questions for the community are:
Is this a known issue with annots.api?
What does annots.api actually do?
This seems to be the same for Adobe Reader X (Windows 2012), Adobe Acrobat X (Windows XP), Adobe Reader 11 (Windows 7), Adobe Acrobat XI (Windows 8) and Adobe Acrobat (Windows XI).
Thanks,
James
P.S. If somebody from Adobe want help to recreate the issue, I can provide some sample PDF files that clearly illustrate the issue and snow a possible polynomial performance curve.

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