This PR fixes some issues with benchmarks
- [x] Removes log output from a log-test
- [x] Avoids a `nil`-defer in `triedb/pathdb`
- [x] Fixes some crashes re tracers
- [x] Refactors a very resource-expensive benchmark for blobpol.
**NOTE**: this rewrite touches live production code (a little bit), as
it makes the validator-function used by the blobpool configurable.
- [x] Switch some benches over to use pebble over leveldb
- [x] reduce mem overhead in the setup-phase of some tests
- [x] Marks some tests with a long setup-phase to be skipped if `-short`
is specified (where long is on the order of tens of seconds). Ideally,
in my opinion, one should be able to run with `-benchtime 10ms -short`
and sanity-check all tests very quickly.
- [x] Drops some metrics-bechmark which times the speed of `copy`.
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Co-authored-by: Sina Mahmoodi <itz.s1na@gmail.com>
Martin HS
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