[GHC] #12758: Bring sanity to our performance testsuite

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#12758: Bring sanity to our performance testsuite
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        Reporter:  bgamari           |                Owner:
            Type:  task              |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:  8.2.1
       Component:  Test Suite        |              Version:  8.0.1
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Comment (by simonpj):

 I'm all for eliminating busy-work, but my experience is that we have too
 few, not too many, performance tests.  Mostly, when a perf-test fails,
 there really is something to investigate, annoying though I often find it.

 The exception is `max_bytes_used` which wobbles around unpredicatably.

 I'm not sure how your new approach would make things better.  Would you
 like to elaborate?

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