Restructure the benchmark pipeline to direct all simulated data, indices, statistics, and query outputs into a unified `run/` directory. Update Makefile targets, shell scripts, and Python utilities to resolve paths relative to this new base. Adjust documentation and dependency tracking to match the revised layout, and remove outdated temporary artifacts.
Introduces a `batch_int_group_stats` API for computing presence counts, sums, minimums, and maximums across sparse and dense matrix representations. The selection layer now utilizes this batched approach to optimize aggregation semantics for boolean and numeric operations. Additionally, reorganizes the benchmarking infrastructure to support querying across presence and count index variants in both dense and sparse formats, including new packing scripts and updated statistics aggregation.
Introduces a complete query benchmark track to evaluate performance and verify consistency between dense and sparse index formats. Adds scripts to simulate fixed-size paired-end reads, pack a sparse presence index, execute queries in both modes, and capture wall time and RSS metrics. Includes a verification step that compares outputs by read ID to ensure content identity across parallel processing. Updates build configuration, documentation, and ignore patterns to support the new pipeline for two microbial specimens.