Michal Terepeta authored Mar 30, 2019 and Marge Bot committed Apr 08, 2019

GHC has an optimization for allocating arrays when the size is
statically known -- it'll generate the code allocating and initializing
the array inline (instead of a call to a procedure from
`rts/PrimOps.cmm`).

However, the generated code uses a loop to do the initialization. Since
we already check that the requested size is small (we check against
`maxInlineAllocSize`), we can generate faster straightline code instead.
This brings about 15% improvement for `newSmallArray#` in my testing and
slightly simplifies the code in GHC.

Signed-off-by: Michal Terepeta <michal.terepeta@gmail.com>