### Summary

Executing a playbook with many hosts, there is massive overhead in checking whether the hosts list is a pattern, see for yourself on this callgrind graph:

![grafik](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3154871/111359016-4a4bf480-868b-11eb-8c8f-55b6a6a10bd7.png)

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/da60525610a384bb04833b1c6429d9db6a87ef64/lib/ansible/vars/manager.py#L490

That check has quadratic runtime with the number of hosts - with a lot of hosts, commenting that check out reduces runtime manyfold.

### Issue Type

Bug Report

### Component Name

variable manager

### Ansible Version

2.10.5, devel

### OS / Environment

Ubuntu

### Steps to Reproduce

```yaml
- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - set_fact:
        extra_tasks: true # compute it
        hosts: "{{ [an, array, with, 5100, computed, hosts] }}"

- hosts: "{{ hostvars.localhost.hosts }}"
  vars:
    extra_tasks: "{{ hostvars.localhost.do_extra_tasks }}"
  tasks:
   # some more tasks here
    - name: Execute extra tasks
      command: /bin/true # example
      when: extra_tasks
```

### Expected Results

Execute in tens of seconds.

### Actual Results

Take over 5 minutes to execute.
for key in ds:
                if not isidentifier(key):
                    raise TypeError("'%s' is not a valid variable name" % key)
        try:
            if isinstance(ds, dict):
                _validate_variable_keys(ds)
                return combine_vars(self.vars, ds)
            elif isinstance(ds, list):
                all_vars = self.vars
                for item in ds:
                    if not isinstance(item, dict):
                        raise ValueError
                    _validate_variable_keys(item)
                    all_vars = combine_vars(all_vars, item)
                return all_vars
            elif ds is None:
                return {}
            else:
                raise ValueError
        except ValueError as e:
            raise AnsibleParserError("Vars in a %s must be specified as a dictionary, or a list of dictionaries" % self.__class__.__name__,
                                     obj=ds, orig_exc=e)
        except TypeError as e:
            raise AnsibleParserError("Invalid variable name in vars specified for %s: %s" % (self.__class__.__name__, e), obj=ds, orig_exc=e)
    def _extend_value(self, value, new_value, prepend=False):