These methods are very hot in the DrawCall/gl_null bechmark. With this
CL applied, the score can improve about 10% on Linux.

This also removes a few unnecessary resolveLink calls.

Bug: chromium:873724

Change-Id: I6034f29eeeebe8341dae3988c38196123687a44f
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/1183522
Commit-Queue: Jie A Chen <jie.a.chen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Geoff Lang <geofflang@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Jamie Madill <jmadill@chromium.org>