diff --git a/jedi/evaluate/context/iterable.py b/jedi/evaluate/context/iterable.py
index 91b6f54d..56927f8f 100644
--- a/jedi/evaluate/context/iterable.py
+++ b/jedi/evaluate/context/iterable.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ from jedi.evaluate.utils import safe_property, to_list
 from jedi.evaluate.cache import evaluator_method_cache
 from jedi.evaluate.filters import ParserTreeFilter, LazyAttributeOverwrite, \
     publish_method
-from jedi.evaluate.base_context import ContextSet, NO_CONTEXTS, \
+from jedi.evaluate.base_context import ContextSet, Context, NO_CONTEXTS, \
     TreeContext, ContextualizedNode, iterate_contexts, HelperContextMixin
 from jedi.parser_utils import get_sync_comp_fors
 
@@ -44,6 +44,14 @@ class IterableMixin(object):
     def py__stop_iteration_returns(self):
         return ContextSet([compiled.builtin_from_name(self.evaluator, u'None')])
 
+    # At the moment, safe values are simple values like "foo", 1 and not
+    # lists/dicts. Therefore as a small speed optimization we can just do the
+    # default instead of resolving the lazy wrapped contexts, that are just
+    # doing this in the end as well.
+    # This mostly speeds up patterns like `sys.version_info >= (3, 0)` in
+    # typeshed.
+    get_safe_value = Context.get_safe_value
+
 
 class GeneratorBase(LazyAttributeOverwrite, IterableMixin):
     array_type = None