add additional benchmark test cases, use them to generate a baseline

[edaniszewski]

There are a few small benchmark tests in the SDK. It would be nice to expand the scope of these tests and include a bunch more. Ideally, this would allow us to collect the benchmark data (e.g. in the project wiki) and use it as a baseline to compare future benchmarks to. This can help to ensure changes to the SDK remain performant and there is not a performance loss over time as features are added/things change.

It may also help to identify areas which may be bottlenecking and could be optimized.