diff --git a/performance/benchmark.rb b/performance/benchmark.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..74301ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/performance/benchmark.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+require 'rubygems'
+require 'benchmark'
+require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/theme_runner'
+
+profiler = ThemeRunner.new
+
+Benchmark.bmbm do |x|
+  x.report("parse & run:")   { 10.times { profiler.run(false) } }
+end
+
diff --git a/performance/profile.rb b/performance/profile.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..61688c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/performance/profile.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+require 'rubygems'
+require 'ruby-prof' rescue fail("install ruby-prof extension/gem")
+require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/theme_runner'
+
+profiler = ThemeRunner.new
+
+puts 'Running profiler...'
+
+results  = profiler.run(true)
+
+puts 'Success'
+puts
+
+[RubyProf::FlatPrinter, RubyProf::GraphPrinter, RubyProf::GraphHtmlPrinter, RubyProf::CallTreePrinter].each do |klass|
+  filename = (ENV['TMP'] || '/tmp') + (klass.name.include?('Html') ? "/liquid.#{klass.name.downcase}.html" : "/liquid.#{klass.name.downcase}.txt")
+  filename.gsub!(/:+/, '_')
+  File.open(filename, "w+") { |fp| klass.new(results).print(fp) }
+  $stderr.puts "wrote #{klass.name} output to #{filename}"
+end
diff --git a/performance/shopify.rb b/performance/theme_runner.rb
similarity index 72%
rename from performance/shopify.rb
rename to performance/theme_runner.rb
index d4055a9..ffac20e 100644
--- a/performance/shopify.rb
+++ b/performance/theme_runner.rb
@@ -13,55 +13,62 @@ require 'digest/md5'
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/shopify/liquid'
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/shopify/database.rb'
 
-require "ruby-prof" rescue fail("install ruby-prof extension/gem")
+class ThemeRunner
 
-class ThemeProfiler
-  
   # Load all templates into memory, do this now so that 
   # we don't profile IO. 
   def initialize
     @tests = Dir[File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/tests/**/*.liquid'].collect do |test|
       next if File.basename(test) == 'theme.liquid'
-      
+
       theme_path = File.dirname(test) + '/theme.liquid'
-      
+
       [File.read(test), (File.file?(theme_path) ? File.read(theme_path) : nil), test]
     end.compact
   end  
-  
-  
-  def profile
-    RubyProf.measure_mode = RubyProf::WALL_TIME
-    
+
+
+  def run(profile = false)
+    RubyProf.measure_mode = RubyProf::WALL_TIME if profile
+
     # Dup assigns because will make some changes to them
     assigns = Database.tables.dup
-    
+
     @tests.each do |liquid, layout, template_name|
-      
+
       # Compute page_tempalte outside of profiler run, uninteresting to profiler
       html = nil
       page_template = File.basename(template_name, File.extname(template_name))
-      
+
       # Profile compiling and rendering both
-      RubyProf.resume { html = compile_and_render(liquid, layout, assigns, page_template) }
       
+      if profile
+
+        RubyProf.resume do 
+          html = compile_and_render(liquid, layout, assigns, page_template) 
+        end 
+
+      else
+        html = compile_and_render(liquid, layout, assigns, page_template) 
+      end
+
       # return the result and the MD5 of the content, this can be used to detect regressions between liquid version
-      $stdout.puts "* rendered template %s, content: %s" % [template_name, Digest::MD5.hexdigest(html)]
-      
+      $stdout.puts "* rendered template %s, content: %s" % [template_name, Digest::MD5.hexdigest(html)] if profile
+ 
       # Uncomment to dump html files to /tmp so that you can inspect for errors
       # File.open("/tmp/#{File.basename(template_name)}.html", "w+") { |fp| fp <<html}
     end
-  
-    RubyProf.stop    
+
+    RubyProf.stop if profile
   end
-  
+
   def compile_and_render(template, layout, assigns, page_template)    
     tmpl = Liquid::Template.new
     tmpl.assigns['page_title'] = 'Page title'
     tmpl.assigns['template'] = page_template
-    
+
     content_for_layout = tmpl.parse(template).render(assigns)
-    
+
     if layout
       assigns['content_for_layout'] = content_for_layout      
       tmpl.parse(layout).render(assigns)
@@ -72,21 +79,4 @@ class ThemeProfiler
 end
 
 
-  profiler = ThemeProfiler.new
-
-  puts 'Running profiler...'
-
-  results  = profiler.profile
-  
-  puts 'Success'
-  puts
-
-[RubyProf::FlatPrinter, RubyProf::GraphPrinter, RubyProf::GraphHtmlPrinter, RubyProf::CallTreePrinter].each do |klass|
-  filename = (ENV['TMP'] || '/tmp') + (klass.name.include?('Html') ? "/liquid.#{klass.name.downcase}.html" : "/liquid.#{klass.name.downcase}.txt")
-  filename.gsub!(/:+/, '_')
-  File.open(filename, "w+") { |fp| klass.new(results).print(fp) }
-  $stderr.puts "wrote #{klass.name} output to #{filename}"
-end
-
-