Yeah, you make a fair point.
I was hoping more people would chime in with strong opinions to make the
decision easier, but perhaps the lack of noise indicates this is a low-pri feature.
I will ask around in my coworker circles to see what they think,
could you do the same?
Just for the record, I'm leaning to the side of "not worth it". My thoughts are,
if you are at a scale where you care about this 20% speedup, you would want
to go all the way to an indexed structure, because the gains you would realize
would exceed 20%, and 20% may not be a sufficient speedup anyway.