[Benchmarking][Dev] Possibly unused asv configuration files

[raulcd]

Describe the enhancement requested

We have several asv configuration files around the repository:

• https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/main/python/asv-build.sh
• https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/main/python/asv-install.sh
• https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/main/python/asv-uninstall.sh
• https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/main/python/asv.conf.json
• https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/main/ci/scripts/python_benchmark.sh

There are also some minor references here:

arrow/python/pyarrow/src/arrow/python/benchmark.h

Line 28 in 9b0885a

// Micro-benchmark routines for use from ASV

And documentation:
https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/9b0885ade1c8bbefa173e79391c2f1a61b93456d/docs/source/python/benchmarks.rst

All of this seems unused/untested on our repository. I am unsure whether this should be still the way we run benchmarks for Python or if conbench is using it but we should probably investigate and either remove it, if unused, or document how it is being used.

Component(s)

Benchmarking, Developer Tools

[kou]

@pitrou @xhochy @AlenkaF @rok Can we remove them?

[rok]

I don't think we currently run ASV benchmarks or any Python benchmarks.

We are going to move c++ benchmarking from Voltron infra to our own which could make Python benchmarking easier. Perhaps we can make a decision when it's clearer how the new benchmarking setup will look like?

[pitrou]

I don't think we have ever run the ASV setup in the last 3 years at least, so it's probably hopelessly broken. Even if we'd like to use ASV again, it is probably more reasonable to start from scratch.

+1 for removing.

[raulcd]

Issue resolved by pull request 49047
#49047