The following commits address performance issues throughout various sections of minus ## Test appending The benchmarks have been taken to create a 1GB text buffer in minus. The (...) tells the time that it took to complete the task. * 4a015a8 + c0475fd: Massive performance boosts (~ 2.72s) * 00af2ec: 8.4% Code speedup (~ 2.51s) * 67772fc: 5% Code speedup (~ 2.39s) * 4611a13: 50% Code speedup (~ 1.59s) * 63e4c2d + 9ce5d7a: 57% Code speedup (~ 1.01s)