Merge pull request #289 from ZohaibHassan16/feature/perf-suite

Introduces a comprehensive, environment-agnostic benchmarking suite for Semantica.

Includes modular benchmarking across core layers, CI-safe mocking,
statistical regression detection, and automated performance auditing.

Fixes #231

Co-authored-by: Zohaib Hassan <zohaibhassan16@users.noreply.github.com> 
Co-authored-by: Mohd Kaif <kaifahmad087@gmail.com>

.github/workflows/benchmark.yml

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+name: Semantica Performance Suite
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main, master]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main, master]
+
+jobs:
+  performance-test:
+    name: Benchmark Runner (Ubuntu/Python 3.12)
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout Code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Set up Python 3.12
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.12"
+          cache: 'pip'
+
+      - name: Install Dependencies
+        env:
+
+          BENCHMARK_REAL_LIBS: "1"
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install -e .
+          pip install -r benchmarks/requirements.txt
+          python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
+          pip install rdflib neo4j faiss-cpu torch pyarrow pdfplumber python-pptx openpyxl lxml python-docx beautifulsoup4 chardet langdetect
+
+      - name: Execute Benchmarks (Real Mode)
+        env:
+          BENCHMARK_REAL_LIBS: "1"
+        run: |
+          python benchmarks/benchmarks_runner.py
+          # Optional: Compare to baseline (requires previous run artifact)
+          # pytest-benchmark --storage file://benchmarks/results --benchmark-compare
+
+      - name: Upload Benchmark Results
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        if: always()
+        with:
+          name: benchmark-report-${{ github.run_id }}
+          path: benchmarks/results
+          retention-days: 30