angular/angular.js — pull request #9772 by jbedard (2014-10-24 08:11:59+00:00)
Title: perf(ngmodel/compile): improve ngmodel and general compile/controller performance (#9609)

This was mainly focused around #9609 - bringing 1.3 up to speed with 1.2 with an ng-repeated ng-model, at least when not using jQuery.

Overall these changes make the added benchmark (and the jsfiddle in #9609) 2-3x faster and seem to be faster then 1.2 now.

The last 3 commits (refactoring controller stuff in $compile) can probably be squashed but I left them separate for now for nicer diffs.

The only functional change (that I know of) is that the NgModelController `$name` is now initialized by the directive (pre-link) instead of within the controller. I'm not sure if this an issue or considered breaking? This was already the case for the `$options` field...