fix: few performance improvements

[fatih-acar]

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[codspeed-hq]

CodSpeed Performance Report

Merging #18136 will not alter performance

_{Comparing fatih-acar:fac-perf-improvements (1e1c7fd) with main (0107f74)}

Summary

✅ 2 untouched benchmarks

[zzstoatzz]

superseded, see: #18150

[fatih-acar]

Hi @zzstoatzz I think you meant to close this PR instead: #18135

For this one, the changes are still valable but I just don't have time to run benchmarks for this, yet...

[zzstoatzz]

oof you are totally right - thank you!

[zzstoatzz]

superseded by #18314 (for real this time 😅 )