traits: small performance improvements #1079

Job	Run time
sdist	11s
macos (macos-13, x86_64)	4m 57s
musllinux (ubuntu-latest, x86_64, x86_64-linux-musl-cross, x86_64-linux-musl-gcc, x86_64-linux-mu...	4m 16s
linux (ubuntu-latest, x86_64)	4m 33s
musllinux (ubuntu-latest, aarch64, aarch64-linux-musl-cross, crossbuild-essential-arm64, aarch64-...	7m 9s
macos (macos-14, aarch64)	4m 26s
linux (ubuntu-latest, aarch64, crossbuild-essential-arm64, -D__ARM_ARCH=8, aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc,...	7m 10s
windows (windows-latest, x64)	8m 28s
linux (ubuntu-latest, armv7, crossbuild-essential-armhf, arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc, arm-linux-gnuea...	5m 39s
benchmark	6m 3s
Release	0s
	52m 52s

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