validate --slow bugs (was Re: Status updates)

[Thomas Miedema]

>
> >  - I still think we should turn on --slow mode for our buildbots soon,
> > but this will cause noise. I'd really like some inputs on this - maybe
> > someone would like to help clean up the 'slow' vaildate failures?
> > Bonus points for this, since you don't even have to
>
> That's a great goal, but --slow enables compiler debug assertions,
> which seem to trigger real errors (full log of failures attached).


Also note that when debugging is on, tests that call
`compiler_stats_num_field` are currently skipped
<https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/testsuite/driver/testlib.py#L305:L308>.
This applies to almost all tests in `tests/perf/compiler`.
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