CI asv check (#1454)

* CI asv check

* added CI asv check

* CI asv check

* CI asv check

* updated CI asv check

* Update docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.9.2.rst

updated v0.9.2.rst

Co-authored-by: Kevin Anderson <[email protected]>

Co-authored-by: Kevin Anderson <[email protected]>

Author: roger-lcc

Diff for: .github/workflows/asv_check.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+name: asv
+
+# CI ASV CHECK is aimed to verify that the benchmarks execute without error.
+on: [pull_request, push]
+
+jobs:
+  quick:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    defaults: 
+      run:
+        shell: bash -el {0}
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Install Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v3
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.9.7'
+
+      - name: Install asv
+        run: pip install asv==0.4.2
+
+      - name: Run asv benchmarks
+        run: |
+          cd benchmarks
+          asv machine --yes
+          asv run HEAD^! --quick --dry-run --show-stderr | sed "/failed$/ s/^/##[error]/" | tee benchmarks.log
+          if grep "failed" benchmarks.log > /dev/null ; then
+              exit 1
+          fi
+        

Diff for: docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.9.2.rst

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Documentation
 Benchmarking
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 * Updated version of numba in asv.conf from 0.36.1 to 0.40.0 to solve numba/numpy conflict. (:issue:`1439`, :pull:`1440`)
+* Added a basic CI asv check (:issue:`1446`, :pull:`1454`)
 
 Requirements
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -37,3 +38,4 @@ Requirements
 Contributors
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
 * Naman Priyadarshi (:ghuser:`Naman-Priyadarshi`)
+* Chencheng Luo (:ghuser:`roger-lcc`)