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Don't use bigNatFromWord#, because that's terrible: * We shouldn't have to traverse a linked list at run-time to build a BigNat# literal. That's just silly! * The static List object we have to create is much larger than the actual BigNat#'s contents, bloating code size. * We have to read the corresponding interface file, which causes un-tracked implicit dependencies. (#23942) Instead, encode them into the appropriate platform-dependent sequence of bytes, and generate code that copies these bytes at run-time from an Addr# literal into a new ByteArray#. A ByteArray# literal would be the correct thing to generate, but these are not yet supported; see also #17747. Somewhat surprisingly, this change results in a slight reduction in compiler allocations, averaging around 0.5% on ghc's compiler performance tests, including when compiling programs that contain no bignum literals to begin with. The specific cause of this has not been investigated. Since ...