feat: add benchmark for execution tracing

triton-vm/Cargo.toml

@@ -60,3 +60,7 @@ harness = false
 [[bench]]
 name = "proof_size"
 harness = false
+
+[[bench]]
+name = "trace_mmr_new_peak_calculation"
+harness = false

triton-vm/benches/trace_mmr_new_peak_calculation.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+use criterion::*;
+use triton_vm::example_programs;
+
+criterion_main!(benches);
+
+criterion_group! {
+    name = benches;
+    config = Criterion::default();
+    targets = trace_mmr_new_peak_calculation
+}
+
+fn trace_mmr_new_peak_calculation(criterion: &mut Criterion) {
+    let program = example_programs::CALCULATE_NEW_MMR_PEAKS_FROM_APPEND_WITH_SAFE_LISTS.clone();
+
+    criterion.bench_function("Trace execution of finding new peaks for MMR", |bencher| {
+        bencher.iter(|| {
+            program.trace_execution([].into(), [].into()).unwrap();
+        });
+    });
+}