Reduce build-time calls to broadcasting machinery

The main one left is in concatenation, in a line

    inds[i] = offsets[i] .+ cat_indices(x, i)

base/sort.jl

@@ -86,9 +86,12 @@ issorted(itr;
 function partialsort!(v::AbstractVector, k::Union{Int,OrdinalRange}, o::Ordering)
     inds = axes(v, 1)
     sort!(v, first(inds), last(inds), PartialQuickSort(k), o)
-    @views v[k]
+    maybeview(v, k)
 end
 
+maybeview(v, k) = view(v, k)
+maybeview(v, k::Integer) = v[k]
+
 """
     partialsort!(v, k, [by=<transform>,] [lt=<comparison>,] [rev=false])
 
@@ -707,7 +710,7 @@ function partialsortperm!(ix::AbstractVector{<:Integer}, v::AbstractVector,
     # do partial quicksort
     sort!(ix, PartialQuickSort(k), Perm(ord(lt, by, rev, order), v))
 
-    @views ix[k]
+    maybeview(ix, k)
 end
 
 ## sortperm: the permutation to sort an array ##

base/stat.jl

@@ -285,22 +285,22 @@ operm(st::StatStruct) = UInt8((filemode(st)     ) & 0x7)
 # mode predicate methods for file names
 
 for f in Symbol[
-    :ispath
-    :isfifo
-    :ischardev
-    :isdir
-    :isblockdev
-    :isfile
-    :issocket
-    :issetuid
-    :issetgid
-    :issticky
-    :uperm
-    :gperm
-    :operm
-    :filemode
-    :filesize
-    :mtime
+    :ispath,
+    :isfifo,
+    :ischardev,
+    :isdir,
+    :isblockdev,
+    :isfile,
+    :issocket,
+    :issetuid,
+    :issetgid,
+    :issticky,
+    :uperm,
+    :gperm,
+    :operm,
+    :filemode,
+    :filesize,
+    :mtime,
     :ctime
 ]
     @eval ($f)(path...)  = ($f)(stat(path...))