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std.crypto.ml_kem tests are very slow, especially under QEMU #21255

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@alexrp

With the test binary already built:

❯ time zig4 build test-std -Dno-lib -fqemu -Dtest-target-filter=riscv64-linux.4.19...6.10.3-none
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Executed in 375.94 secs fish external
usr time 380.91 secs 0.00 micros 380.91 secs
sys time 1.27 secs 378.00 micros 1.27 secs

The std.crypto.ml_kem tests account for just about 4 minutes of this if you watch the progress bar. Test happy flow and Test inner PKE are the big offenders.

I had to measure that manually with a stopwatch because, for whatever reason, if you add -Dtest-filter=ml_kem, the tests only take ~30 seconds to run. I have no idea why they're only so slow in a full test binary.

Note that the testing was done on my llvm-19 branch as RISC-V compilation is unusably slow with LLVM 18.

cc @jedisct1

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