diff --git a/dev/bench/data.js b/dev/bench/data.js
index 8993f483e..b3d7b2b2b 100644
--- a/dev/bench/data.js
+++ b/dev/bench/data.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 window.BENCHMARK_DATA = {
-  "lastUpdate": 1737971996097,
+  "lastUpdate": 1737975986200,
   "repoUrl": "https://github.com/Pometry/Raphtory",
   "entries": {
     "Rust Benchmark": [
@@ -142816,6 +142816,780 @@ window.BENCHMARK_DATA = {
             "unit": "ns/iter"
           }
         ]
+      },
+      {
+        "commit": {
+          "author": {
+            "email": "97447091+ljeub-pometry@users.noreply.github.com",
+            "name": "ljeub-pometry",
+            "username": "ljeub-pometry"
+          },
+          "committer": {
+            "email": "noreply@github.com",
+            "name": "GitHub",
+            "username": "web-flow"
+          },
+          "distinct": true,
+          "id": "9e55a1b0f4ed20fc92e884abee1f95f878e794e2",
+          "message": "no manual variant management for proto enums (#1934)\n\navoid having to manually maintain the mapping between int enum values and property type",
+          "timestamp": "2025-01-27T10:39:32Z",
+          "tree_id": "df27306a15fa4553d3ea9f4a28d1a42d3cb4fe14",
+          "url": "https://github.com/Pometry/Raphtory/commit/9e55a1b0f4ed20fc92e884abee1f95f878e794e2"
+        },
+        "date": 1737975983327,
+        "tool": "cargo",
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+            "name": "local_triangle_count/local_triangle_count",
+            "value": 841018,
+            "range": "± 9680",
+            "unit": "ns/iter"
+          },
+          {
+            "name": "local_clustering_coefficient/local_clustering_coefficient",
+            "value": 94856,
+            "range": "± 1190",
+            "unit": "ns/iter"
+          },
+          {
+            "name": "graphgen_large_clustering_coeff/graphgen_large_clustering_coeff/Graph(num_nodes=500004, num_edges=20...",
+            "value": 2494588755,
+            "range": "± 45689004",
+            "unit": "ns/iter"
+          },
+          {
+            "name": "graphgen_large_pagerank/graphgen_large_pagerank/Graph(num_nodes=500004, num_edges=2000000)",
+            "value": 196315068,
+            "range": "± 1400400",
+            "unit": "ns/iter"
+          },
+          {
+            "name": "graphgen_large_concomp/graphgen_large_concomp/Graph(num_nodes=500004, num_edges=2000000)",
+            "value": 2137856978,
+            "range": "± 28415287",
+            "unit": "ns/iter"
+          },
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+            "name": "temporal_motifs/temporal_motifs",
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+            "range": "± 213301",
+            "unit": "ns/iter"
+          },
+          {
+            "name": "large/1k fixed edge updates with varying time",
+            "value": 310415,
+            "range": "± 2035",
+            "unit": "ns/iter"
+          },
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+            "name": "large/1k fixed edge updates with varying time and numeric string input",
+            "value": 334814,
+            "range": "± 5984",
+            "unit": "ns/iter"
+          },
+          {
+            "name": "large/1k fixed edge updates with varying time and string input",
+            "value": 369171,
+            "range": "± 1590",
+            "unit": "ns/iter"
+          },
+          {
+            "name": "large/1k random edge additions",
+            "value": 414850,
+            "range": "± 58947",
+            "unit": "ns/iter"
+          },
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+            "name": "lotr_graph/has_edge_existing",
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+            "unit": "ns/iter"
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+            "unit": "ns/iter"
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+            "unit": "ns/iter"
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+            "unit": "ns/iter"
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+            "unit": "ns/iter"
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+            "unit": "ns/iter"
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+            "range": "± 858",
+            "unit": "ns/iter"
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+            "unit": "ns/iter"
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+            "unit": "ns/iter"
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+            "unit": "ns/iter"
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+            "unit": "ns/iter"
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+            "unit": "ns/iter"
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+            "range": "± 1645",
+            "unit": "ns/iter"
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