Basic benchmarking setup with Criterion #408
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This PR adds basic benchmarking setup using Criterion.rs. This would be useful to do performance analyses, and also to measure potential performance optimizations.
Main motivation for this PR was to understand how Regorus handles constants vs. data. @balcanuc realized that constants are re-evaluated each time and that was causing noticeable performance differences on sets with ~100 elements compared to ~3000 elements. This seems to be only happen with constants and not with data:

We're trying to get more data and plan to create an issue to discuss in more details.
The benchmarks can be run with
cargo bench. Sample output:Criterion also generates HTML reports and graphs automatically, which can be found at
./target/criterion/report/index.html.