Further reduce test parameter downloads to reduce CI flakiness

[vicsn]

Motivation

A parameter test still failed recently: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/ProvableHQ/snarkVM/13487/workflows/4c90c4b7-c758-4774-a323-6dd68c421a7f/jobs/597293?utm_campaign=vcs-integration-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=github-checks-link&utm_content=summary

Further reducing the downloads, as already proposed by @raychu86 in the past

Test Plan

Existing tests should suffice.

Related PRs

The previous reduction in the tests was implemented in #2594

[raychu86]

Is this really the correct approach? I think at least we need a unit test to prove that these SRS can't be used based on the protocol limits.

Alternatively, we can disable the CI, but still allow the downloads of these SRS. (This might require more LoC changed)

[vicsn]

Is this really the correct approach? I think at least we need a unit test to prove that these SRS can't be used based on the protocol limits.

We already approved this approach in #2594 and the reasoning for why its safe is in there and in the code comments.

Alternatively, we can disable the CI, but still allow the downloads of these SRS. (This might require more LoC changed)

Yes that would be ideal and I think we should do so, or think of a better CI setup, when it becomes prioritiy.

[vicsn]

Happy to host a review session on the topic if you want.

[d0cd]

Is there a way to reduce the parameter downloads only during CI via some feature flags?

[niklaslong]

Is there a way to reduce the parameter downloads only during CI via some feature flags?

Yep! Feature flags in place of the commented out code should work fine—we could introduce a ci feature.

[vicsn]

Is there a way to reduce the parameter downloads only during CI via some feature flags?

@raychu86 does that sound acceptable to you?

[raychu86]

Is there a way to reduce the parameter downloads only during CI via some feature flags?

Yep! Feature flags in place of the commented out code should work fine—we could introduce a ci feature.

Yes let's do that!