refactor: remove exclude-empty option

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The option has been broken for the past few releases and it didn't seem to cause major issues. So we make the assumption that this option is not used frequently and therefore we make the decision to drop it.

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Austin Benchmarks

Running Austin benchmarks with Python 3.10.13

Benchmark Summary

Comparison of dev against 3.6.0.

The following scenarios show a statistically significant difference in performance between the two versions.

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
Wall time [sampling interval: 1]	🟡	🟢	🟡	🟡
CPU time [sampling interval: 1]	🟡	🟡	🔴	🟡
CPU time [sampling interval: 1000]	🔴	🟡	🟡	🟡
RSA keygen [sampling interval: 1000]	🟡	🟡	🟡	🔴
Full metrics [sampling interval: 1]	🟡	🟡	🔴	🟡
Full metrics [sampling interval: 10]	🟢	🟡	🟡	🟢

Benchmark Results

Wall time [sampling interval: 1]

Wall time [sampling interval: 1]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	197000 ± 7000	0.99996 ± 2e-05	3e-06 ± 3e-06	7.5 ± 0.7
dev	199000 ± 3000	0.9999 ± 6e-05	3e-06 ± 3e-06	7.6 ± 0.5

Wall time [sampling interval: 10]

Wall time [sampling interval: 10]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	62000 ± 7000	0.36 ± 0.04	8e-06 ± 8e-06	9.5 ± 0.5
dev	66000 ± 9000	0.37 ± 0.05	1e-05 ± 1e-05	9.4 ± 0.5

Wall time [sampling interval: 100]

Wall time [sampling interval: 100]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	12400 ± 200	0.0004 ± 0.0001	0 ± 0	9.2 ± 0.8
dev	12300 ± 200	0.0005 ± 0.0002	0.0 ± 2e-05	9.0 ± 0.7

Wall time [sampling interval: 1000]

Wall time [sampling interval: 1000]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	1860 ± 20	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	11 ± 1
dev	1850 ± 30	0 ± 0	0.0 ± 0.0001	11 ± 1

CPU time [sampling interval: 1]

CPU time [sampling interval: 1]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	60000 ± 3000	1 ± 0	8e-06 ± 9e-06	13.1 ± 0.6
dev	61000 ± 2000	1 ± 0	2.1e-05 ± 7e-06	12.8 ± 0.6

CPU time [sampling interval: 10]

CPU time [sampling interval: 10]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	58000 ± 3000	0.63 ± 0.05	1e-05 ± 1e-05	13.3 ± 0.5
dev	57000 ± 2000	0.64 ± 0.07	2e-05 ± 2e-05	13.2 ± 0.4

CPU time [sampling interval: 100]

CPU time [sampling interval: 100]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	6360 ± 30	0.0008 ± 0.0003	2e-05 ± 6e-05	16 ± 1
dev	6363 ± 8	0.0008 ± 0.0001	5e-05 ± 5e-05	17 ± 1

CPU time [sampling interval: 1000]

CPU time [sampling interval: 1000]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	947.9 ± 1.0	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	19 ± 2
dev	946.2 ± 0.9	0 ± 0	0.0003 ± 0.0006	21 ± 1

RSA keygen [sampling interval: 1]

RSA keygen [sampling interval: 1]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	61000 ± 4000	1 ± 0	0.0001 ± 7e-05	16.0 ± 0.9
dev	63000 ± 5000	1 ± 0	0.0002 ± 0.0002	15.1 ± 1.0

RSA keygen [sampling interval: 10]

RSA keygen [sampling interval: 10]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	61000 ± 4000	0.995 ± 0.005	0.0001 ± 0.0001	15.5 ± 1.0
dev	62000 ± 3000	0.995 ± 0.003	0.0002 ± 0.0002	15.5 ± 0.8

RSA keygen [sampling interval: 100]

RSA keygen [sampling interval: 100]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	6340 ± 30	0.001 ± 0.001	0.0004 ± 0.0003	19 ± 3
dev	6340 ± 30	0.002 ± 0.004	0.0006 ± 0.0006	22 ± 4

RSA keygen [sampling interval: 1000]

RSA keygen [sampling interval: 1000]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	945.2 ± 0.8	0 ± 0	0.0003 ± 0.0006	19 ± 2
dev	945 ± 1	0 ± 0	0.001 ± 0.002	24 ± 5

Full metrics [sampling interval: 1]

Full metrics [sampling interval: 1]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	75000 ± 2000	1 ± 0	7e-06 ± 6e-06	19.9 ± 0.7
dev	76000 ± 2000	1 ± 0	1.6e-05 ± 7e-06	19.4 ± 0.5

Full metrics [sampling interval: 10]

Full metrics [sampling interval: 10]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	75000 ± 1000	0.88 ± 0.03	1.4e-05 ± 9e-06	19.9 ± 0.7
dev	77000 ± 1000	0.87 ± 0.02	1.8e-05 ± 9e-06	19.1 ± 0.3

Full metrics [sampling interval: 100]

Full metrics [sampling interval: 100]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	12300 ± 200	0.0013 ± 0.0005	3e-05 ± 4e-05	24 ± 1
dev	12400 ± 200	0.0013 ± 0.0003	2e-05 ± 3e-05	24.3 ± 0.8

Full metrics [sampling interval: 1000]

Full metrics [sampling interval: 1000]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	1870 ± 20	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	29 ± 1
dev	1860 ± 20	0 ± 0	0.0001 ± 0.0002	29 ± 2

Multiprocess wall time [sampling interval: 1]

Multiprocess wall time [sampling interval: 1]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	6800 ± 700	1 ± 0	7e-05 ± 3e-05	130 ± 10
dev	7200 ± 300	1 ± 0	9e-05 ± 4e-05	133 ± 6

Multiprocess wall time [sampling interval: 10]

Multiprocess wall time [sampling interval: 10]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	7100 ± 200	0.998 ± 0.001	0.0001 ± 4e-05	136 ± 3
dev	7200 ± 200	0.998 ± 0.001	8e-05 ± 4e-05	130 ± 10

Multiprocess wall time [sampling interval: 100]

Multiprocess wall time [sampling interval: 100]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	6600 ± 800	0.02 ± 0.002	4e-05 ± 2e-05	136 ± 6
dev	7100 ± 500	0.02 ± 0.002	5e-05 ± 2e-05	134 ± 8

Multiprocess wall time [sampling interval: 1000]

Multiprocess wall time [sampling interval: 1000]

	Sample Rate	Saturation	Error Rate	Sampling Speed
3.6.0	6400 ± 500	0.0014 ± 0.0002	2e-05 ± 2e-05	42 ± 2
dev	6600 ± 100	0.0014 ± 0.0001	2e-05 ± 2e-05	41 ± 1