Small speed up to starting client requests

[bdraco]

What do these changes do?

Avoid some checks for uncommon cases

Avoid lower()ing default values that are rarely set.

Are there changes in behavior for the user?

no

Is it a substantial burden for the maintainers to support this?

no

[bdraco]

master can handle 13% more RPS than 3.9.5 and the performance is a bit more consistent until gc happens

There is still a lot of time spent in all the update_* functions that we likely can't do much better in:

aiohttp/aiohttp/client_reqrep.py

Line 258 in d684195

self.update_version(version)

There are so many options that its always going to be difficult to optimize them without making more invasive changes which probably aren't worth it.

master

3.9.5

[codecov]

Codecov Report

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Project coverage is 98.56%. Comparing base (d684195) to head (0d30abc).
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✅ All tests successful. No failed tests found.

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Backport to 3.10: 💚 backport PR created

✅ Backport PR branch: patchback/backports/3.10/803d818d1eb2c5fdd9fce4c427d3062b6d39fd6b/pr-9386

Backported as #9388

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[patchback]

Backport to 3.11: 💚 backport PR created

✅ Backport PR branch: patchback/backports/3.11/803d818d1eb2c5fdd9fce4c427d3062b6d39fd6b/pr-9386

Backported as #9389

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