Port df2578d2

Original Commit Message:

    Improves performance in simple, single element case by 5% and in multiple
    elements cases by 2%.

R=danno@chromium.org, joransiu@ca.ibm.com, jyan@ca.ibm.com, bjaideep@ca.ibm.com, michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com
BUG=chromium:608675
LOG=N

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2537513005
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#41370}