[rfc] remove (part of?) selftest --benchmark and bzrlib.benchmarks

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Robert Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 12:01 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
>>
>> I don't see any substantial commits in that directory for a very long
>> time.  Does anyone still run them?
> 
> I don't. From time to time I use the infrastructure to make a bench in
> that directory, but (as history shows) I don't tend to commit them.
> 
> -Rob

I would probably say the same. I've relied more or bigger scale tests
like usertests, etc (stuff that takes 30s => minutes)

As Robert mentioned, I do occasionally use the infrastructure. I think
Jelmer recently used it for the RIO/Bencode stuff.

But in the end, I want to use more real-world data than a synthetic
benchmark, and we aren't going to go shipping 100MB tarballs in the
source tree.

So I'm fine removing the bulk of them, though having "self.time()"
available in testing is pretty nice.

John
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