optimized cia merge

[arjunsavel]

apparently concatenating lists is very very bad

[codecov-commenter]

Codecov Report

All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests ✅

Project coverage is 82.40%. Comparing base (c96ac33) to head (104a39a).
Report is 34 commits behind head on main.

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- Coverage   82.74%   82.40%   -0.34%     
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+ Hits          748      754       +6     
- Misses        156      161       +5     

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unittests	82.40% <100.00%> (-0.34%)	⬇️

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