Yoast/wordpress-seo — pull request #1624 by dannyvankooten (2014-09-26 20:38:04+00:00)
Title: Optimise retain_variable_keys function.

Playing around with XHProf I noticed `WPSEO_Option_Titles::retain_variable_keys` was responsible for close to 4% of the execution time of the rendered page.

Looking at the function, I noticed a check could be done to prevent even going into the second loop which would have no consequences, AFAIK.

**Current situation**
![image](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/885856/4427210/cc298560-45bc-11e4-90e1-fab9e594ff0f.png)

**New situation (with this PR)**
![image](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/885856/4427214/d6265a20-45bc-11e4-98d3-917a5000775e.png)

Pinging @jrfnl as she probably knows best what the consequences are for this seemingly simple change.