diff --git a/src/librustc/mir/interpret/allocation.rs b/src/librustc/mir/interpret/allocation.rs
index f849361e08be9..22dafaf4e0fba 100644
--- a/src/librustc/mir/interpret/allocation.rs
+++ b/src/librustc/mir/interpret/allocation.rs
@@ -695,6 +695,12 @@ impl<Tag, Extra> Allocation<Tag, Extra> {
     }
 }
 
+impl AllocationDefinedness {
+    pub fn all_bytes_undef(&self) -> bool {
+        self.initial == false && self.ranges.len() == 1
+    }
+}
+
 /// Relocations.
 #[derive(Clone, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash, Debug, RustcEncodable, RustcDecodable)]
 pub struct Relocations<Tag = (), Id = AllocId>(SortedMap<Size, (Tag, Id)>);
diff --git a/src/librustc_mir/interpret/memory.rs b/src/librustc_mir/interpret/memory.rs
index ee7fb18fd05a5..dd9f769ead451 100644
--- a/src/librustc_mir/interpret/memory.rs
+++ b/src/librustc_mir/interpret/memory.rs
@@ -855,6 +855,22 @@ impl<'mir, 'tcx, M: Machine<'mir, 'tcx>> Memory<'mir, 'tcx, M> {
         let relocations = self.get_raw(src.alloc_id)?
             .prepare_relocation_copy(self, src, size, dest, length);
 
+        // Prepare a copy of the undef mask.
+        let compressed = self.get_raw(src.alloc_id)?.compress_undef_range(src, size);
+
+        if compressed.all_bytes_undef() {
+            // Fast path: If all bytes are `undef` then there is nothing to copy. The target range
+            // is marked as undef but we otherwise omit changing the byte representation which may
+            // be arbitrary for undef bytes.
+            // This also avoids writing to the target bytes so that the backing allocation is never
+            // touched if the bytes stay undef for the whole interpreter execution. On contemporary
+            // operating system this can avoid physically allocating the page.
+            let dest_alloc = self.get_raw_mut(dest.alloc_id)?;
+            dest_alloc.mark_definedness(dest, size * length, false);
+            dest_alloc.mark_relocation_range(relocations);
+            return Ok(());
+        }
+
         let tcx = self.tcx.tcx;
 
         // This checks relocation edges on the src.
@@ -897,8 +913,10 @@ impl<'mir, 'tcx, M: Machine<'mir, 'tcx>> Memory<'mir, 'tcx, M> {
             }
         }
 
-        // copy definedness to the destination
-        self.copy_undef_mask(src, dest, size, length)?;
+        // now copy over the undef data
+        self.get_raw_mut(dest.alloc_id)?
+            .mark_compressed_undef_range(&compressed, dest, size, length);
+
         // copy the relocations to the destination
         self.get_raw_mut(dest.alloc_id)?.mark_relocation_range(relocations);
 
@@ -906,29 +924,8 @@ impl<'mir, 'tcx, M: Machine<'mir, 'tcx>> Memory<'mir, 'tcx, M> {
     }
 }
 
-/// Undefined bytes
+/// Machine pointer introspection.
 impl<'mir, 'tcx, M: Machine<'mir, 'tcx>> Memory<'mir, 'tcx, M> {
-    // FIXME: Add a fast version for the common, nonoverlapping case
-    fn copy_undef_mask(
-        &mut self,
-        src: Pointer<M::PointerTag>,
-        dest: Pointer<M::PointerTag>,
-        size: Size,
-        repeat: u64,
-    ) -> InterpResult<'tcx> {
-        // The bits have to be saved locally before writing to dest in case src and dest overlap.
-        assert_eq!(size.bytes() as usize as u64, size.bytes());
-
-        let src_alloc = self.get_raw(src.alloc_id)?;
-        let compressed = src_alloc.compress_undef_range(src, size);
-
-        // now fill in all the data
-        let dest_allocation = self.get_raw_mut(dest.alloc_id)?;
-        dest_allocation.mark_compressed_undef_range(&compressed, dest, size, repeat);
-
-        Ok(())
-    }
-
     pub fn force_ptr(
         &self,
         scalar: Scalar<M::PointerTag>,