[GHC] #13569: Optimise code-gen for field-updates of large products

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#13569: Optimise code-gen for field-updates of large products
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        Reporter:  hvr               |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  task              |               Status:  new
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       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  8.0.1
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Comment (by bgamari):

 Yes, I believe we discussed this around six months ago and the suggestion
 was to emit a `memcpy` instead.

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