[HOLD for payment 2023-01-09] [Tracking] Add performance CI tests

[roryabraham]

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Action Performed:

Open a pull request in NewDot.

Expected Result:

A suite of performance tests should run, so that we know before a PR is merged, if it creates a statistically significant performance regression.

Actual Result:

We don't have performance CI tests

Workaround:

Just don't break stuff™

Platform:

n/a

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[roryabraham]

cc @hannojg Can you please comment on this so I can assign it to you

[hannojg]

Yes 👋

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[AndrewGable]

PR in review

[AndrewGable]

PR was merged, however, we had a lot of testing to confirm a few questions:

1. Does the PR work?
2. Can we get the "Large Runners" working?
3. Do the "Large Runners" speed things up?
4. Do the "Large Runners" have KVM support to allow hardware acceleration?