perf: low-hanging overhead

[FBruzzesi]

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable)

• [x] 💾 Refactor
• [ ] ✨ Feature
• [ ] 🐛 Bug Fix
• [ ] 🔧 Optimization
• [ ] 📝 Documentation
• [ ] ✅ Test
• [ ] 🐳 Other

Checklist

• [x] Code follows style guide (ruff)
• [ ] Tests added
• [ ] Documented the changes

If you have comments or can explain your changes, please do so below.

Inspired by #993, I took a very high level overview and run perflint (careful with this one!!!). Tests are all passing locally and I thought to give it a go :)

[FBruzzesi]

ooh, nice! is this something we can add to ci?

In my experience it yields a lot of false positive, or some suggestions that would lead to major refactors. I don't think we should trust it blindly to add to CI