tests: use pytest-benchmark for performance tests pytest-benchmark is a benchmarking suite for individual functions. It presents itself as a pytest fixture, i.e. you accept it as a test function argument, and then can use it to benchmark a function. Output is presented in the following form: ----------------------------------------- benchmark: 1 tests ---------------------------------------- Name (time in s) Min Max Mean StdDev Median IQR Outliers(*) Rounds Iterations ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- test_graphmod_git 3.1122 3.1682 3.1295 0.0236 3.1196 0.0313 1;0 5 1 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------