[query] Various Benchmark Suite Improvements

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• [query] Benchmark configurations #14762
• [benchmark] notebook for interactively computing benchmark config #14757
• [query] Various Benchmark Suite Improvements #14761 👈 (View in Graphite)
• [query] make local and remote tmp settable on backend #14748
• [query] Lowering + Optimisation with implict timing context #14731 : 1 other dependent PR (#14732 )
• [query] Lift backend state into {Service|Py4J}BackendApi #14698
• [query] Move is.hail.check to test code #14801 : 1 other dependent PR (#14693 )
• [query] Move LoweredTableReaderCoercer into ExecuteContext #14696
• [query] Remove persistedIr from Backend interface #14692
• [query] Remove lookupOrCompileCachedFunction from Backend interface #14691
• [query] Remove BlockMatrix persist from Backend interface #14690
• [query] Expose references via ExecuteContext #14686
• [query] Extract Backend Methods called from Python into Py4JBackendExtensions #14767
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