Benchmarking ptdf

[bknueven]

Fixes # .

Summary/Motivation:

Changes proposed in this PR:

TODO:

• Allow the user to optionally pass in a timer; if one is not passed in then create one (or a dummy object). Then no need to return a timer either.

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