Criterion results on a test related to nearcore-private-1#2:
compile                 time:   [9.7873 ms 9.8477 ms 9.9119 ms]
                        change: [-5.2388% -4.2981% -3.2369%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
                        Performance has improved.

Manual testing on the exact test of nearcore-private-1#2 confirms the ~5% speedup:

Non-rayon goes down to 24.5-25ms from 25.5-26ms
Rayon goes down to 12ms from 12.5ms