diff --git a/lib/internal/webstreams/readablestream.js b/lib/internal/webstreams/readablestream.js
index a9d57ddeeb1614..512a3d35aaa6ed 100644
--- a/lib/internal/webstreams/readablestream.js
+++ b/lib/internal/webstreams/readablestream.js
@@ -597,8 +597,12 @@ class ReadableStream {
                   !controller[kState].queue.length) {
                 readableStreamDefaultControllerClearAlgorithms(controller);
                 readableStreamClose(stream);
-              } else {
-                readableStreamDefaultControllerCallPullIfNeeded(controller);
+              } else if (!controller[kState].closeRequested &&
+                         controller[kState].started &&
+                         controller[kState].highWaterMark -
+                           controller[kState].queueTotalSize > 0) {
+                // Reduced ShouldCallPull, as in the read() fast path.
+                readableStreamDefaultControllerPull(controller);
               }
 
               return PromiseResolve({ done: false, value: chunk });
@@ -947,8 +951,14 @@ class ReadableStreamDefaultReader {
           if (controller[kState].closeRequested && !controller[kState].queue.length) {
             readableStreamDefaultControllerClearAlgorithms(controller);
             readableStreamClose(stream);
-          } else {
-            readableStreamDefaultControllerCallPullIfNeeded(controller);
+          } else if (!controller[kState].closeRequested &&
+                     controller[kState].started &&
+                     controller[kState].highWaterMark -
+                       controller[kState].queueTotalSize > 0) {
+            // ShouldCallPull reduced to the conditions not already
+            // established on this path: the state is readable and the
+            // queue was non-empty, so no read requests can be parked.
+            readableStreamDefaultControllerPull(controller);
           }
 
           return PromiseResolve({ done: false, value: chunk });
@@ -2522,8 +2532,27 @@ function readableStreamDefaultControllerEnqueue(controller, chunk) {
       reader[kState] !== undefined &&
       reader[kType] === 'ReadableStreamDefaultReader' &&
       reader[kState].readRequests.length) {
+    // Fulfilling a read request can run user code synchronously (the
+    // pipeTo read request invokes the sink's write algorithm), so the
+    // full ShouldCallPull predicate has to be re-evaluated afterwards.
     readableStreamFulfillReadRequest(stream, chunk, false);
+  } else if (controllerState.sizeAlgorithm === defaultSizeAlgorithm) {
+    // The default size algorithm always returns 1, so the call and the
+    // size validation in enqueueValueWithSize can be skipped entirely.
+    // No user code runs between the guards at the top of this function
+    // and this point, so ShouldCallPull reduces to the started flag and
+    // the desired size (this branch implies no parked read requests,
+    // ruling out the reader arm of the predicate).
+    ArrayPrototypePush(controllerState.queue, { value: chunk, size: 1 });
+    controllerState.queueTotalSize++;
+    if (controllerState.started &&
+        controllerState.highWaterMark - controllerState.queueTotalSize > 0) {
+      readableStreamDefaultControllerPull(controller);
+    }
+    return;
   } else {
+    // The user-supplied size algorithm may run arbitrary code, so the
+    // full ShouldCallPull predicate has to be re-evaluated afterwards.
     try {
       const chunkSize =
         FunctionPrototypeCall(
@@ -2592,6 +2621,13 @@ function readableStreamDefaultControllerShouldCallPull(controller) {
 function readableStreamDefaultControllerCallPullIfNeeded(controller) {
   if (!readableStreamDefaultControllerShouldCallPull(controller))
     return;
+  readableStreamDefaultControllerPull(controller);
+}
+
+// The ShouldCallPull half of CallPullIfNeeded, split out so that callers
+// that have already established the predicate from state in scope (the
+// enqueue path above) can skip re-running it.
+function readableStreamDefaultControllerPull(controller) {
   if (controller[kState].pulling) {
     controller[kState].pullAgain = true;
     return;
@@ -2652,14 +2688,24 @@ function readableStreamDefaultControllerPullSteps(controller, readRequest) {
     if (controller[kState].closeRequested && !queue.length) {
       readableStreamDefaultControllerClearAlgorithms(controller);
       readableStreamClose(stream);
-    } else {
-      readableStreamDefaultControllerCallPullIfNeeded(controller);
+    } else if (!controller[kState].closeRequested &&
+               controller[kState].started &&
+               controller[kState].highWaterMark -
+                 controller[kState].queueTotalSize > 0) {
+      // Reduced ShouldCallPull: the state is known to be readable and the
+      // queue was non-empty, so no read requests can be parked.
+      readableStreamDefaultControllerPull(controller);
     }
     readRequest[kChunk](chunk);
     return;
   }
   readableStreamAddReadRequest(stream, readRequest);
-  readableStreamDefaultControllerCallPullIfNeeded(controller);
+  // Reduced ShouldCallPull: the state is known to be readable, an empty
+  // queue in that state implies close has not been requested (close with
+  // an empty queue closes the stream immediately), and the read request
+  // parked above already satisfies the reader-with-pending-reads arm.
+  if (controller[kState].started)
+    readableStreamDefaultControllerPull(controller);
 }
 
 function setupReadableStreamDefaultController(