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Fix web tracing flakiness on macOS ARM64 - #190759

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This PR fixes a source of flakiness in the devicelab runWebBenchmark task, particularly on macOS ARM64 machines. The issue occurs when the tdur (thread CPU duration) field is missing from a Chrome trace event, causing the benchmark harness to throw a FormatException.

Changes in this PR:

  1. Migrates the Tracing.start Chrome DevTools Protocol call from using the deprecated categories argument to the modern traceConfig object, explicitly passing enableThreadCpuTime: true. This ensures Chrome makes its best effort to capture thread durations.
  2. Adds a robust fallback to the wall-clock duration (dur) when calculating average frame times if tdur is still unavailable (which happens occasionally due to sandbox/OS limitations blocking Mach thread API calls on macOS).

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This pull request updates the Chrome tracing configuration to use traceConfig with thread CPU time enabled, and introduces support for the wall-clock duration field dur in BlinkTraceEvent as a fallback when tdur is missing. Feedback suggests refactoring the duration calculation in _computeAverageDuration to assign the value to a local variable first, leveraging Dart's type promotion to avoid using the null-assertion operator (!).

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