Simon Peyton Jones authored Jun 18, 2020 and Marge Bot committed Jun 23, 2020

These tweaks affect the inner loop of simplifyArgsWorker, which
in turn is called from the flattener in Flatten.hs.  This is
a key perf bottleneck to T9872{a,b,c,d}.

These two small changes have a modest but useful benefit.
No change in functionality whatsoever.

Relates to #18354