diff --git a/PhpCollective/Sniffs/AbstractSniffs/AbstractSniff.php b/PhpCollective/Sniffs/AbstractSniffs/AbstractSniff.php
index 9e250cd..c4e5e28 100644
--- a/PhpCollective/Sniffs/AbstractSniffs/AbstractSniff.php
+++ b/PhpCollective/Sniffs/AbstractSniffs/AbstractSniff.php
@@ -28,6 +28,27 @@ abstract class AbstractSniff implements Sniff
         '@noinspection',
     ];
 
+    /**
+     * Per-file cache for class-name-with-namespace resolution.
+     *
+     * `getClassNameWithNamespace()` walks the token stream backwards from
+     * the end of the file to find the class/trait/interface/enum keyword.
+     * The result is stable for the lifetime of a phpcs run on a given file,
+     * but the original implementation re-computed it on every sniff call.
+     * Caching by filename turns dozens-to-hundreds of full-file walks per
+     * large file into a single walk.
+     *
+     * @var array<string, string|null>
+     */
+    private static array $classNameWithNamespaceCache = [];
+
+    /**
+     * Per-file cache for class name resolution (with filename fallback).
+     *
+     * @var array<string, string>
+     */
+    private static array $classNameCache = [];
+
     /**
      * @param \PHP_CodeSniffer\Files\File $phpcsFile
      * @param int $stackPtr
@@ -98,22 +119,27 @@ protected function getNamespace(File $phpcsFile): string
      */
     protected function getClassNameWithNamespace(File $phpcsFile): ?string
     {
+        $cacheKey = $phpcsFile->getFilename();
+        if (array_key_exists($cacheKey, self::$classNameWithNamespaceCache)) {
+            return self::$classNameWithNamespaceCache[$cacheKey];
+        }
+
         try {
             $lastToken = TokenHelper::getLastTokenPointer($phpcsFile);
         } catch (EmptyFileException $e) {
-            return null;
+            return self::$classNameWithNamespaceCache[$cacheKey] = null;
         }
 
         if (!NamespaceHelper::findCurrentNamespaceName($phpcsFile, $lastToken)) {
-            return null;
+            return self::$classNameWithNamespaceCache[$cacheKey] = null;
         }
 
         $prevIndex = $phpcsFile->findPrevious([T_CLASS, T_TRAIT, T_INTERFACE, T_ENUM], $lastToken);
         if (!$prevIndex) {
-            return null;
+            return self::$classNameWithNamespaceCache[$cacheKey] = null;
         }
 
-        return ClassHelper::getFullyQualifiedName(
+        return self::$classNameWithNamespaceCache[$cacheKey] = ClassHelper::getFullyQualifiedName(
             $phpcsFile,
             $prevIndex,
         );
@@ -126,10 +152,15 @@ protected function getClassNameWithNamespace(File $phpcsFile): ?string
      */
     protected function getClassName(File $phpcsFile): string
     {
+        $cacheKey = $phpcsFile->getFilename();
+        if (isset(self::$classNameCache[$cacheKey])) {
+            return self::$classNameCache[$cacheKey];
+        }
+
         $namespace = $this->getClassNameWithNamespace($phpcsFile);
 
         if ($namespace) {
-            return trim($namespace, '\\');
+            return self::$classNameCache[$cacheKey] = trim($namespace, '\\');
         }
 
         $fileName = $phpcsFile->getFilename();
@@ -143,7 +174,7 @@ protected function getClassName(File $phpcsFile): string
         $className = implode('\\', $classNameParts);
         $className = str_replace('.php', '', $className);
 
-        return $className;
+        return self::$classNameCache[$cacheKey] = $className;
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/PhpCollective/Sniffs/Commenting/DocBlockReturnSelfSniff.php b/PhpCollective/Sniffs/Commenting/DocBlockReturnSelfSniff.php
index 8ab8902..8621c1b 100644
--- a/PhpCollective/Sniffs/Commenting/DocBlockReturnSelfSniff.php
+++ b/PhpCollective/Sniffs/Commenting/DocBlockReturnSelfSniff.php
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ public function process(File $phpcsFile, $stackPointer): void
 
         $docBlockStartIndex = $tokens[$docBlockEndIndex]['comment_opener'];
 
+        $ownClassName = null;
+
         for ($i = $docBlockStartIndex + 1; $i < $docBlockEndIndex; $i++) {
             if ($tokens[$i]['type'] !== 'T_DOC_COMMENT_TAG') {
                 continue;
@@ -75,6 +77,28 @@ public function process(File $phpcsFile, $stackPointer): void
             }
 
             $parts = explode('|', $content);
+
+            // The three assertions below all act only when `parts` contains
+            // `self`, `$this`, or the own (fully qualified) class name.
+            // Skipping the expensive return-type body scan when none of these
+            // are present turns this sniff from O(methods * body_size) into
+            // ~O(methods) for files where most @return tags are plain types
+            // like `void`, `int`, `array<...>`, etc.
+            if ($ownClassName === null) {
+                $ownClassName = '\\' . $this->getClassName($phpcsFile);
+            }
+            $needsReturnTypeCheck = false;
+            foreach ($parts as $part) {
+                if ($part === 'self' || $part === '$this' || $part === $ownClassName) {
+                    $needsReturnTypeCheck = true;
+
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+            if (!$needsReturnTypeCheck) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
             $returnTypes = $this->getReturnTypes($phpcsFile, $stackPointer);
 
             $this->assertCorrectDocBlockParts($phpcsFile, $classNameIndex, $parts, $returnTypes, $appendix);