diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 48ae6945..016d14b1 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY USE_FOLDERS ON)
 # define some folders
 set(CATCH_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR})
 set(SELF_TEST_DIR ${CATCH_DIR}/projects/SelfTest)
+set(BENCHMARK_DIR ${CATCH_DIR}/projects/Benchmark)
 set(HEADER_DIR ${CATCH_DIR}/include)
 
 if(USE_CPP11)
@@ -161,13 +162,20 @@ set(HEADERS
         ${HEADER_DIR}/reporters/catch_reporter_xml.hpp
         )
 
+set(BENCH_SOURCES
+        ${BENCHMARK_DIR}/BenchMain.cpp
+        ${BENCHMARK_DIR}/StringificationBench.cpp
+        )
+        
 # Provide some groupings for IDEs
 SOURCE_GROUP("Tests" FILES ${TEST_SOURCES})
 SOURCE_GROUP("Surrogates" FILES ${IMPL_SOURCES})
+SOURCE_GROUP("Benchmarks" FILES ${BENCH_SOURCES})
 
 # configure the executable
 include_directories(${HEADER_DIR})
 add_executable(SelfTest ${TEST_SOURCES} ${IMPL_SOURCES} ${HEADERS})
+add_executable(Benchmark ${BENCH_SOURCES} ${HEADERS})
 
 # configure unit tests via CTest
 enable_testing()
diff --git a/projects/Benchmark/BenchMain.cpp b/projects/Benchmark/BenchMain.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0c7c351f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/Benchmark/BenchMain.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#define CATCH_CONFIG_MAIN
+#include "catch.hpp"
diff --git a/projects/Benchmark/StringificationBench.cpp b/projects/Benchmark/StringificationBench.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..67f36685
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/Benchmark/StringificationBench.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#include "catch.hpp"
+
+#include <vector>
+
+///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+TEST_CASE("Successful tests -- REQUIRE", "[Success]") {
+    const size_t sz = 1 * 1024 * 1024;
+
+
+    std::vector<size_t> vec; vec.reserve(sz);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < sz; ++i){
+        vec.push_back(i);
+        REQUIRE(vec.back() == i);
+    }
+}
+
+///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+TEST_CASE("Successful tests -- CHECK", "[Success]") {
+    const size_t sz = 1 * 1024 * 1024;
+
+
+    std::vector<size_t> vec; vec.reserve(sz);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < sz; ++i){
+        vec.push_back(i);
+        CHECK(vec.back() == i);
+    }
+}
+
+///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+TEST_CASE("Unsuccessful tests -- CHECK", "[Failure]") {
+    const size_t sz = 128 * 1024;
+
+
+    std::vector<size_t> vec; vec.reserve(sz);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < sz; ++i){
+        vec.push_back(i);
+        CHECK(vec.size() == i);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/projects/Benchmark/readme.txt b/projects/Benchmark/readme.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c4d2fabd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/Benchmark/readme.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+This is very much a work in progress.
+The past results are standardized to a developer's machine,
+the benchmarking script is basic and there are only 3 benchmarks,
+but this should get better in time. For now, at least there is something to go by.
diff --git a/projects/Benchmark/results/2017-01-14T21-53-49-e3659cdddd43ba4df9e4846630be6a6a7bd85a07.result b/projects/Benchmark/results/2017-01-14T21-53-49-e3659cdddd43ba4df9e4846630be6a6a7bd85a07.result
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4b6fc659
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/Benchmark/results/2017-01-14T21-53-49-e3659cdddd43ba4df9e4846630be6a6a7bd85a07.result
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Successful tests -- CHECK: median: 3.38116 (s), stddev: 0.11567366292001534 (s)
+Successful tests -- REQUIRE: median: 3.479955 (s), stddev: 0.16295972890734556 (s)
+Unsuccessful tests -- CHECK: median: 1.966895 (s), stddev: 0.06323488524716572 (s)
diff --git a/scripts/runner.py b/scripts/runner.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dc753cf0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/runner.py
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import subprocess, os, sys
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+from collections import defaultdict
+from statistics import median, stdev
+from datetime import datetime
+
+def get_commit_hash():
+    res = subprocess.run('git rev-parse HEAD'.split(), check=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True)
+    return res.stdout.strip()
+
+if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+    print('Usage: {} benchmark-binary'.format(sys.argv[0]))
+    exit(1)
+
+
+num_runs = 10
+data = defaultdict(list)
+
+
+def parse_file(file):
+
+    def recursive_search(node):
+        if node.tag == 'TestCase':
+            results = node.find('OverallResult')
+            time = results.get('durationInSeconds')
+            data[node.get('name')].append(float(time))
+        elif node.tag in ('Group', 'Catch'):
+            for child in node:
+                recursive_search(child)
+
+    tree = ET.parse(file)
+    recursive_search(tree.getroot())
+
+def run_benchmarks(binary):
+    call = [binary] + '-d yes -r xml -o'.split()
+    for i in range(num_runs):
+        file = 'temp{}.xml'.format(i)
+        print('Run number {}'.format(i))
+        subprocess.run(call + [file])
+        parse_file(file)
+        # Remove file right after parsing, because benchmark output can be big
+        os.remove(file)
+
+
+# Run benchmarks
+run_benchmarks(sys.argv[1])
+
+result_file = '{:%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S}-{}.result'.format(datetime.now(), get_commit_hash())
+
+
+print('Writing results to {}'.format(result_file))
+with open(result_file, 'w') as file:
+    for k in sorted(data):
+        file.write('{}: median: {} (s), stddev: {} (s)\n'.format(k, median(data[k]), stdev(data[k])))