Severe Perfomance Degradation - Module calls t() outside of a function

My site has been experiencing abnormal slowness, and I've tracked it to the subscriptions module.

According to this here, http://drupal.org/node/65801#comment-194285, when a module calls t() outside of a function, ie. in the global namespace, it causes severe performance degradation.

The offending lines on the current subscriptions.module are these:

define('SUBSCRIPTIONS_DEFAULT_SUBJECT', t('[!site] !type subscription update for !name : !subject'));
define('SUBSCRIPTIONS_DEFAULT_BODY', t("Greetings, !name.\n\nA !type to which you have subscribed has been updated.\n!title\n!teaser\nTo view the thread, navigate to !url \n\n--\nThis is an automatic message from !site.\nTo manage your subscriptions, browse to !manage-url"));

Getting rid of the t() does the trick and gets rid of my performance problem, however a more complex solution needs to be found that allows for the two strings to get translated.

define('SUBSCRIPTIONS_DEFAULT_SUBJECT', '[!site] !type subscription update for !name : !subject');
define('SUBSCRIPTIONS_DEFAULT_BODY', "Greetings, !name.\n\nA !type to which you have subscribed has been updated.\n!title\n!teaser\nTo view the thread, navigate to !url \n\n--\nThis is an automatic message from !site.\nTo manage your subscriptions, browse to !manage-url");

Any takers?