As you say, most people don't have a .Xresources file, and for these people, xrdb won't even be executed - No loss in speed. For those people who do: I would argue, that the complications of your solution are far worse than the 0.01 second the -nocpp option saves (tested on my crappy 400 Euro notebook from 2011). People expect standard features to work out of the box these days.
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