Force imposs_deflt_cons in filterAlts
This fixes a pretty serious space leak as the forced thunk would retain `Alt b` values which would then contain reference to a lot of old bindings and other simplifier gunk. The OtherCon unfolding was not forced on subsequent simplifier runs so more and more old stuff would be retained until the end of simplification. Fixing this has a drastic effect on maximum residency for the mmark package which goes from ``` 45,005,401,056 bytes allocated in the heap 17,227,721,856 bytes copied during GC 818,281,720 bytes maximum residency (33 sample(s)) 9,659,144 bytes maximum slop 2245 MiB total memory in use (0 MB lost due to fragmentation) ``` to ``` 45,039,453,304 bytes allocated in the heap 13,128,181,400 bytes copied during GC 331,546,608 bytes maximum residency (40 sample(s)) 7,471,120 bytes maximum slop 916 MiB total memory in use (0 MB lost due to fragmentation) ``` See #21993 for some more discussion.
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