Try to review your database queries if you have something above 0.1s.
There are also new methods to optimize various DB loads, can be adjusted via constants.
For someone (ie too many categories) may not bring improvements.
// Enable Countries, Regions, Cities and Categories to be pre-loaded into PHP session. Recommended if there is just few hundreds of records
define('OPTIMIZE_CATEGORIES', false);
define('OPTIMIZE_CATEGORIES_LIMIT', 1000);
define('OPTIMIZE_CITIES', false);
define('OPTIMIZE_CITIES_LIMIT', 5000);
define('OPTIMIZE_REGIONS', false);
define('OPTIMIZE_REGIONS_LIMIT', 2000);
define('OPTIMIZE_COUNTRIES', false);