Pytest-benchmark

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* Fixed broken hooks handling on pytest 8.1 or later (the ``TypeError: import_path() missing 1 required keyword-only argument: 'consider_namespace_packages'`` issue).
Unfortunately this sets the minimum supported pytest version to 8.1.

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* Fixed bad fixture check that broke down then `nbmake <https://pypi.org/project/nbmake/>`_ was enabled.

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* Dropped support for now EOL Python 3.8. Also moved tests suite to only test the latest pytest versions (8.3.x).
* Fix generate parametrize tests benchmark csv report errors (issue `268 <https://github.com/ionelmc/pytest-benchmark/issues/268>`_).
Contributed by Johnny Huang in `269 <https://github.com/ionelmc/pytest-benchmark/pull/269>`_.
* Added the ``--benchmark-time-unit`` cli option for overriding the measurement unit used for display.
Contributed by Tony Kuo in `257 <https://github.com/ionelmc/pytest-benchmark/pull/257>`_.
* Fixes spelling in some help texts.
Contributed by Eugeniy in `267 <https://github.com/ionelmc/pytest-benchmark/pull/267>`_.
* Added new cprofile options:

- ``--benchmark-cprofile-loops=LOOPS`` - previously profiling only ran the function once, this allow customization.
- ``--benchmark-cprofile-top=COUNT`` - allows showing more rows.
- ``--benchmark-cprofile-dump=[FILENAME-PREFIX]`` - allows saving to a file (that you can load in `snakeviz <https://pypi.org/project/snakeviz/>`_, `RunSnakeRun <https://pypi.org/project/RunSnakeRun/>`_ or other tools).
* Removed hidden dependency on `py.path <https://pypi.org/project/py/>`_ (replaced with pathlib).

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* Dropped support for legacy Pythons (2.7, 3.6 or older).
* Switched CI to GitHub Actions.
* Removed dependency on the ``py`` library (that was not properly specified as a dependency anyway).
* Fix skipping test in `test_utils.py` if appropriate VCS not available. Also fix typo.
Contributed by Sam James in `211 <https://github.com/ionelmc/pytest-benchmark/pull/211>`_.
* Added support for pytest 7.2.0 by using ``pytest.hookimpl`` and ``pytest.hookspec`` to configure hooks.
Contributed by Florian Bruhin in `224 <https://github.com/ionelmc/pytest-benchmark/pull/224>`_.
* Now no save is attempted if ``--benchmark-disable`` is used.
Fixes `205 <https://github.com/ionelmc/pytest-benchmark/issues/205>`_.
Contributed by Friedrich Delgado in `207 <https://github.com/ionelmc/pytest-benchmark/pull/207>`_.

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* Republished with updated changelog.

I intended to publish a ``3.3.0`` release but I messed it up because bumpversion doesn't work well with pre-commit
apparently... thus ``3.4.0`` was set in by accident.

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* Disable progress indication unless ``--benchmark-verbose`` is used.
Contributed by Dimitris Rozakis in `149 <https://github.com/ionelmc/pytest-benchmark/pull/149>`_.
* Added Python 3.9, dropped Python 3.5.
Contributed by Miroslav Šedivý in `189 <https://github.com/ionelmc/pytest-benchmark/pull/189>`_.
* Changed the "cpu" data in the json output to include everything that cpuinfo outputs, for better or worse as cpuinfo 6.0 changed some
fields. Users should now ensure they are an adequate cpuinfo package installed.
**MAY BE BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE**
* Changed behavior of ``--benchmark-skip`` and ``--benchmark-only`` to apply early in the collection phase.
This means skipped tests won't make pytest run fixtures for said tests unnecessarily, but unfortunately this also means
the skipping behavior will be applied to any tests that requires a "benchmark" fixture, regardless if it would come from pytest-benchmark
or not.
**MAY BE BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE**
* Added ``--benchmark-quiet`` - option to disable reporting and other information output.
* Squelched unnecessary warning when ``--benchmark-disable`` and save options are used.
Fixes `199 <https://github.com/ionelmc/pytest-benchmark/issues/199>`_.
* ``PerformanceRegression`` exception no longer inherits ``pytest.UsageError`` (apparently a *final* class).