[development] Two performance improvements

[Dries Buytaert]

Hello world,

here are two patches that improve Drupal's performance.  Both need  
work.  I was hoping someone could take a look at those ... both are  
fairly straightforward.

   http://drupal.org/node/42463
   http://drupal.org/node/73045

Thanks,

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