[tools] Implement retry mechanism for failures and use it for some flaky tests

This is not fixing the root cause of the flakiness, but prevents us from loosing
data in the short to medium term as investigation proved to be difficult and
will likely take even more time.

R=machenbach@chromium.org, tmrts@chromium.org

Bug: chromium:872257
Change-Id: Id5fbd0a00058f8612089ee4d6a858193924bd868
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/1564204
Commit-Queue: Sergiy Belozorov <sergiyb@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Achenbach <machenbach@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#60814}
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tree: 17fccc8113410d46bb74b7aa8fd45a976fd0d62e
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README.md

V8 JavaScript Engine

V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.

V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262.

V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google.

V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.

V8 Project page: https://v8.dev/docs

Getting the Code

Checkout depot tools, and run

    fetch v8

This will checkout V8 into the directory v8 and fetch all of its dependencies. To stay up to date, run

    git pull origin
    gclient sync

For fetching all branches, add the following into your remote configuration in .git/config:

    fetch = +refs/branch-heads/*:refs/remotes/branch-heads/*
    fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

Contributing

Please follow the instructions mentioned at v8.dev/docs/contribute.