Eliminate thunk in 'IfaceTyCon'
Heap analysis showed that `IfaceTyCon` retains a thunk to `IfaceTyConInfo`, defeating the sharing of the most common instances of `IfaceTyConInfo`. We make sure the indirection is removed by adding bang patterns to `IfaceTyCon`. Experimental results on the agda code base, where the `mi_extra_decls` were read from disk: Before this change, we observe around 8654045 instances of: `IfaceTyCon[Name,THUNK_1_0]` But these thunks almost exclusively point to a shared value! Forcing the thunk a little bit more, leads to `ghc-debug` reporting: `IfaceTyCon[Name:Name,IfaceTyConInfo]` and a noticeable reduction of live bytes (on agda ~10%).
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