Introduce Swiss Cheese benchmark #507
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The current design of RawTable leaves tombstones behind to indicate deleted elements, going from tightly packed elements to a much more sparse design as more and more elements are deleted -- until more elements are inserted again, at least.
This creates a "swiss cheese" situation, with a decreasing elements density over time. This situation is expected to lead to a higher number of cache misses as this density decreases.
The swiss_cheese.rs benchmark suite aims at measuring the impact of this effect on performance.