ci: remove synthetic benchmarks (#460)

* ci: remove synthetic benchmarks

Remove synthetic benchmarks as they've been superseded by scenario benchmarks.

* chore: remove unused crate (#461)

.cargo-husky/hooks/pre-commit

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 if [ -z "${ALCHEMY_URL}" ] || [ -z "${INFURA_URL}" ]; then
   echo WARNING: skipping remote tests because the ALCHEMY_URL and INFURA_URL environment variables are not defined. Local test results may differ from those in CI.
-  ALL_FEATURES="--features tracing,bench-once,serde,std"
+  ALL_FEATURES="--features tracing,serde,std"
 else
   ALL_FEATURES=--all-features
 fi
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ fi
 set -xe
 
 # Setting RUSTFLAGS env for clippy makes it not include custom rules
-RUSTFLAGS=-Dwarnings cargo check --workspace --all-targets --profile bench ${ALL_FEATURES}
+RUSTFLAGS=-Dwarnings cargo check --workspace --all-targets ${ALL_FEATURES}
 cargo clippy --all --all-targets ${ALL_FEATURES} -- -D warnings
 cargo +nightly fmt --all -- --check
 cargo test --doc --workspace ${ALL_FEATURES}

book/src/01_getting_started/03_test.md

@@ -23,11 +23,9 @@ cargo t --all-features
 To only run local tests, execute:
 
 ```bash
-cargo t --features bench-once,serde,std,tracing
+cargo t --features serde,std,tracing
 ```
 
-The `bench-once` feature flag is used to ensure that benchmarks only run one iteration, to avoid taking too long.
-
 ## Hardhat
 
 To validate that the port of Hardhat Node to EDR did not break any functionality, we implemented the EDR integration alongside the existing TypeScript code.

crates/edr_evm/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-[lib]
-bench = false
-
 [package]
 name = "edr_evm"
 version = "0.3.5"
@@ -39,27 +36,6 @@ serial_test = "2.0.0"
 tempfile = "3.7.1"
 
 [features]
-bench-once = []           # limits the benchmark variants to one
 test-remote = []
 test-utils = []
 tracing = ["dep:tracing", "edr_eth/tracing"]
-
-[[bench]]
-name = "database_commit"
-path = "benches/state/database_commit.rs"
-harness = false
-
-[[bench]]
-name = "state_clone"
-path = "benches/state/state_clone.rs"
-harness = false
-
-[[bench]]
-name = "state_debug"
-path = "benches/state/state_debug.rs"
-harness = false
-
-[[bench]]
-name = "state_ref"
-path = "benches/state/state_ref.rs"
-harness = false