Sylvain Henry authored Aug 09, 2020 and Marge Bot committed Aug 09, 2020

As suspected by @simonpj in #18535, avoiding allocations in
`GHC.Utils.Misc.splitAtList` when there are no leftover arguments is
beneficial for performance:

   On CI validate-x86_64-linux-deb9-hadrian:
    T12227 -7%
    T12545 -12.3%
    T5030  -10%
    T9872a -2%
    T9872b -2.1%
    T9872c -2.5%

Metric Decrease:
    T12227
    T12545
    T5030
    T9872a
    T9872b
    T9872c