Eliminate large `.expect` files

The general philosophy around checking in golden files requires them to be inspected when changes occur. It is not clear to me that files larger than a reasonably small bound are ever realistically checked. This leads to a false sense of security because we technically have "tests" even though we're not really making sure they are correct.

I ran the following command to find all the `.expect` files that are longer than 300 files:
```
fd .expect | xargs -I _ wc -l _ | awk '{ if ( $1 > 300 ) print $2,$1 }' | sort -nk2
```

A couple of recommendations:
1. If a particular test does not need to be large, let's bring it under the 300 lines threshold
2. If a particular test does need to be longer, let's figure out why
    1. If it the case that we're just tracking golden outputs (like the output of a computation) and we would never want it to change, let's add a prefix like `.freeze.expect` to indicate that this output will _never_ change after being committed to the repo.
    2. If the output format is particularly verbose, let's build some tooling to compress and track only the relevant part of the output. For example, if the Queues testing infrastructure can use a tool to generate a shorter representation of the output, let's build that tool.
3. Let's write a GH bot to enforce this limit on any new `.expect` files

### Backend
```
tests/backend/verilog/memory-with-external-attribute.expect 628
```

### Frontends

```
tests/frontend/ntt-pipeline/ntt-4.expect 306
tests/frontend/ntt-pipeline/ntt-4-reduced-2.expect 312
tests/frontend/relay/batch_matmul.expect 321
tests/frontend/relay/max_pool2d.expect 341
tests/frontend/relay/conv2d.expect 423
tests/frontend/relay/softmax.expect 696
```

### YXI and Xilinx
(@nathanielnrn)

```
tests/xilinx/language-tutorial-iterate.expect 687
tests/xilinx/gen-verilog/language-tutorial-iterate.expect 686
tests/xilinx/gen-verilog/dot-product.expect 1426
tests/xilinx/gen-verilog/vectorized-add.expect 1426
```

```
yxi/tests/axi/read-compute-write/seq-vec-add.expect 395
yxi/tests/axi/read-compute-write/seq-mem-vec-add.expect 475
yxi/tests/axi/dynamic/dyn-vec-add.expect 772
yxi/tests/axi/dynamic/dyn-mem-vec-add.expect 848
yxi/tests/axi/read-compute-write/seq-mem-vec-add-axi-wrapped.expect 9119
yxi/tests/axi/dynamic/dyn-mem-vec-add-axi-wrapped.expect 11012
```

### Interpreter
(@EclecticGriffin)

```
interp/tests/benchmarks/polybench/linear-algebra-symm.expect 318
interp/tests/benchmarks/polybench/linear-algebra-gramschmidt.expect 400
interp/tests/benchmarks/polybench/linear-algebra-2mm.expect 418
interp/tests/benchmarks/polybench/linear-algebra-syr2k.expect 422
interp/tests/benchmarks/polybench/linear-algebra-3mm.expect 576
interp/tests/benchmarks/polybench/linear-algebra-doitgen.expect 752
```

### Queues
(@anshumanmohan)

```
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/binheap/fifo.expect 60008
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/binheap/pifo.expect 60008
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/fifo.expect 60008
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/pifo.expect 60008
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/pifo_tree.expect 60008
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/sdn.expect 60008
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/strict_and_rr_queues/rr_queues/rr_queue_2flows.expect 60008
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/strict_and_rr_queues/rr_queues/rr_queue_3flows.expect 60008
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/strict_and_rr_queues/rr_queues/rr_queue_4flows.expect 60008
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/strict_and_rr_queues/rr_queues/rr_queue_5flows.expect 60008
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/strict_and_rr_queues/rr_queues/rr_queue_6flows.expect 60008
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/strict_and_rr_queues/rr_queues/rr_queue_7flows.expect 60008
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/strict_and_rr_queues/strict_queues/strict_2flows.expect 60008
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/strict_and_rr_queues/strict_queues/strict_3flows.expect 60008
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/strict_and_rr_queues/strict_queues/strict_4flows.expect 60008
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/strict_and_rr_queues/strict_queues/strict_5flows.expect 60008
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/strict_and_rr_queues/strict_queues/strict_6flows.expect 60008
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/binheap/stable_binheap.expect 80010
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/nwc_simple.expect 100012
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/pcq.expect 100012
calyx-py/test/correctness/queues/pieo.expect 100012
```

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