This saved about 46 array allocations per request on an extremely simple
application.  The delegation happened in the notification subsystem
which is a hotspot, so this should result in even more savings with
larger apps.

Squashed commit of the following:

commit 41eef0d1479526f7de25fd4391d98e61c126d9f5
Author: Aaron Patterson <aaron.patterson@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 6 16:32:31 2013 -0800

    speed up notifications

commit 586b4a18656f66fb2c518fb8e8fee66a016e8ae6
Author: Aaron Patterson <aaron.patterson@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 6 16:31:05 2013 -0800

    speed up runtime registry methods

commit b67d074cb4314df9a88438f785868cef77e583d7
Author: Aaron Patterson <aaron.patterson@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 6 16:28:12 2013 -0800

    change method name and make it public