text: #!/usr/bin/env python3
  """
  Utilities for timing ProPlot performance.
  """
  import time
  
  BENCHMARK = False  # toggle this to turn on benchmarking
  
  
  class _benchmark(object):
      """
      Context object for timing arbitrary blocks of code.
      """
      def __init__(self, message):
          self.message = message
  
      def __enter__(self):
          if BENCHMARK:
              self.time = time.perf_counter()
  
      def __exit__(self, *args):  # noqa: U100
          if BENCHMARK:
              print(f'{self.message}: {time.perf_counter() - self.time}s')
  