diff --git a/src/libcollections/vec.rs b/src/libcollections/vec.rs
index f26324127003b..31f5abef8b67b 100644
--- a/src/libcollections/vec.rs
+++ b/src/libcollections/vec.rs
@@ -1244,7 +1244,26 @@ impl<T: Clone> Vec<T> {
     /// ```
     #[stable(feature = "vec_extend_from_slice", since = "1.6.0")]
     pub fn extend_from_slice(&mut self, other: &[T]) {
-        self.extend(other.iter().cloned())
+        self.reserve(other.len());
+
+        // Unsafe code so this can be optimised to a memcpy (or something
+        // similarly fast) when T is Copy. LLVM is easily confused, so any
+        // extra operations during the loop can prevent this optimisation.
+        unsafe {
+            let len = self.len();
+            let ptr = self.get_unchecked_mut(len) as *mut T;
+            // Use SetLenOnDrop to work around bug where compiler
+            // may not realize the store through `ptr` trough self.set_len()
+            // don't alias.
+            let mut local_len = SetLenOnDrop::new(&mut self.len);
+
+            for i in 0..other.len() {
+                ptr::write(ptr.offset(i as isize), other.get_unchecked(i).clone());
+                local_len.increment_len(1);
+            }
+
+            // len set by scope guard
+        }
     }
 }
 
@@ -1669,7 +1688,26 @@ impl<T> Vec<T> {
 #[stable(feature = "extend_ref", since = "1.2.0")]
 impl<'a, T: 'a + Copy> Extend<&'a T> for Vec<T> {
     fn extend<I: IntoIterator<Item = &'a T>>(&mut self, iter: I) {
-        self.extend(iter.into_iter().map(|&x| x))
+        <I as SpecExtendRef<T>>::extend_vec(iter, self);
+    }
+}
+
+// helper trait for specialization of Vec's Extend<&T> impl
+trait SpecExtendRef<T> {
+    fn extend_vec(self, vec: &mut Vec<T>);
+}
+
+impl<'a, T: 'a + Copy, I> SpecExtendRef<T> for I
+    where I: IntoIterator<Item=&'a T>
+{
+    default fn extend_vec(self, vec: &mut Vec<T>) {
+        vec.extend(self.into_iter().map(|&x| x))
+    }
+}
+
+impl<'a, T: Copy> SpecExtendRef<T> for &'a [T] {
+    fn extend_vec(self, vec: &mut Vec<T>) {
+        vec.extend_from_slice(self);
     }
 }