gnovm/stdlibs: tests take too long to run even a single one

[odeke-em]

Description

If I do

cd gnovm/stdlibs/bytes
gno test -v -run=TestCompareIdentical .
=== RUN   TestCompareIdenticalSlice
--- PASS: TestCompareIdenticalSlice (0.00s)
ok      . 	76.10s

76.10 seconds to run a single test is too long and that impedes the speed of development

For a comparison, the equivalent in the Go standard library takes less than 1 second

$ go test -run=CompareIdentical -v
=== RUN   TestCompareIdenticalSlice
--- PASS: TestCompareIdenticalSlice (0.00s)
PASS
ok  	bytes	0.048s

and to run even the entire suite of tests in the Go bytes packages takes less than 1 second

PASS
ok  	bytes	0.974s

Your environment

• Go version:go version devel go1.24-6405e60ca6 Wed Nov 27 06:35:34 2024 +0000 linux/amd64
• OS and CPU architecture: linux/amd64
• Gno commit hash causing the issue (example: f24690e)

Suggestion

I highly recommend that performance of such be looked at as a serious incentive to make performance a huge win for not only tests and velocity of improvements but also for general performance.If the tests take 70X longer than the standard library, then even the VM must be suffering with bad performance and has been undiagnosed for a while.

[notJoon]

related with #2935