ENH: Create performance benchmarks with ASV

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Describe the solution you'd like

Pandas has a "performance test suite"

https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/development/contributing_codebase.html#running-the-performance-test-suite

It is implemented with Airspeed Velecity framework https://asv.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

It'd be a "nice to have" for staircase