Feat/benchmarking convergence #1282

Job	Run time
gitleaks	23s
linter_checks (ubuntu-latest, 3.10)	4m 34s
copyright_and_dependencies_check (ubuntu-latest, 3.10)	1m 48s
lock_check (ubuntu-latest, 3.10, 1.4.0)	31s
lock_check (macos-latest, 3.10, 1.4.0)	56s
lock_check (windows-latest, 3.10, 1.4.0)	1m 57s
test (ubuntu-latest, 3.8)	2m 8s
test (ubuntu-latest, 3.9)	2m 4s
test (ubuntu-latest, 3.10)	1m 40s
test (ubuntu-latest, 3.11)	1m 55s
test (macos-latest, 3.8)	2m 48s
test (macos-latest, 3.9)	2m 19s
test (macos-latest, 3.10)	2m 8s
test (macos-latest, 3.11)	1m 47s
test (windows-latest, 3.8)	4m 25s
test (windows-latest, 3.9)	5m 10s
test (windows-latest, 3.10)	4m 15s
test (windows-latest, 3.11)	4m 40s
	45m 28s

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