Let's backport speedups from 3.4 to 3.3

[Mike Stump]

On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 03:33 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Mike Stump <mstump@apple.com> writes:
>
>> On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 12:37 PM, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
>>> Are there any more anyone would like to recommend for consideration?
>>
>> Zack has three hunks that I think might be interesting.
>
> Are you talking about the 'congerie' patches?

Yes.