pythongh-100176: Remove outdated Tools/{io,cc,string}bench

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2023-02-12-19-28-08.gh-issue-100176.Kzs4Zw.rst

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+Remove outdated Tools/{io,cc,string}bench

Tools/README

@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ while building or extending Python.
 
 buildbot        Batchfiles for running on Windows buildbot workers.
 
-ccbench         A Python threads-based concurrency benchmark. (*)
-
 freeze          Create a stand-alone executable from a Python program.
 
 gdb             Python code to be run inside gdb, to make it easier to
@@ -15,8 +13,6 @@ i18n            Tools for internationalization. pygettext.py
                 and msgfmt.py generates a binary message catalog
                 from a catalog in text format.
 
-iobench         Benchmark for the new Python I/O system. (*)
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 msi             Support for packaging Python as an MSI package on Windows.
 
 parser          Un-parsing tool to generate code from an AST.
@@ -28,9 +24,6 @@ scripts         A number of useful single-file programs, e.g. tabnanny.py
                 tabs and spaces, and 2to3, which converts Python 2 code
                 to Python 3 code.
 
-stringbench     A suite of micro-benchmarks for various operations on
-                strings (both 8-bit and unicode). (*)
-
 unicode         Tools for generating unicodedata and codecs from unicode.org
                 and other mapping files (by Fredrik Lundh, Marc-Andre Lemburg
                 and Martin von Loewis).
@@ -39,6 +32,4 @@ unittestgui     A Tkinter based GUI test runner for unittest, with test
                 discovery.
 
 
-(*) A generic benchmark suite is maintained separately at https://github.com/python/performance
-
 Note: The pynche color editor has moved to https://gitlab.com/warsaw/pynche