change: force precompilation at startup

[kshyatt-aws]

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Description of changes: Add a benchmark file that also compares with PL and Qiskit simulators. Some cleanup for single task processing to allow sending of OQ3 source and inputs as strings directly.

Testing done: Tests passed locally, benchmarking and profiling shows performance improvement.

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⚠️ Performance Alert ⚠️

Possible performance regression was detected for benchmark 'Python Benchmark with pytest-benchmark'.
Benchmark result of this commit is worse than the previous benchmark result exceeding threshold 2.

Benchmark suite	Current: bfe5a16	Previous: 5b2ae57	Ratio
benchmark/benchmark.py::test_exact_shots[ghz-state_vector-14-sv]	30.917921044855614 iter/sec (stddev: 0)	63.55525961399944 iter/sec (stddev: 0)	2.06
benchmark/benchmark.py::test_exact_shots[qft-density_matrix q[0], q[1]-7-sv]	75.6250062674378 iter/sec (stddev: 0)	408.0107858463614 iter/sec (stddev: 0)	5.40
benchmark/benchmark.py::test_exact_shots_batched[ghz-variance y(q[0])-10-10-sv]	30.635752398513716 iter/sec (stddev: 0)	70.51946769597852 iter/sec (stddev: 0)	2.30
benchmark/benchmark.py::test_nonzero_shots[qft-variance y(q[0])-100-4-sv]	57.29824999685084 iter/sec (stddev: 0)	291.719472752765 iter/sec (stddev: 0)	5.09

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