Get Magento Product Collection filtered by category and ordered by product position from that category without loading category model and subsequent overhead

MagentoFastCategoryProductCollection

<?php

  public function getProductCollection(){
    if($_category = Mage::registry('current_category')){
      $_categoryId = $_category->getId();
      $_productCollection = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_collection');
      $_productCollection->joinTable(array('cp'=>'catalog/category_product'), 'product_id=entity_id', array('*') ,'cp.category_id='.$_categoryId, 'inner'); //join the table we need, filtered on Category ID
      $_productCollection
      	->addAttributeToSelect(Mage::getSingleton('catalog/config')->getProductAttributes()) //attributes needed from products using default config, or select your own
        ->addAttributeToFilter('status', 1) //ensure its enabled
        ->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', array('in'=>array(Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Visibility::VISIBILITY_IN_CATALOG,Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Visibility::VISIBILITY_BOTH))) //ensure its viewable on catalog
        ->addMinimalPrice() //min price
        ->addFinalPrice() //final prices
        ->addTaxPercents() //taxes
        ->addUrlRewrite($_categoryId); //build the urls for getProductUrl()
      $_productCollection->getSelect()->order('cp.position ASC'); //order by positioning defined in category 
      return $_productCollection;
    }
  }

/**** BENCHMARKS 
0.0428    1    327,016    0

compared to 

0.1342    1    2,611,768    2,883,584
which is using 
$category=Mage::getModel('catalog/category)->load($id); 
$category->getProductCollection()
etc
***/
?>