diff --git a/benchmarks/Bench.hs b/benchmarks/Bench.hs
deleted file mode 100644
index 1afc52b..0000000
--- a/benchmarks/Bench.hs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,90 +0,0 @@
-{-# LANGUAGE ForeignFunctionInterface #-}
-{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
-{-# LANGUAGE TupleSections #-}
-{-# LANGUAGE ViewPatterns #-}
-
-{-# OPTIONS_GHC -Wall #-}
-import Control.Applicative
-import Control.Monad
-import System.Directory
-import System.FilePath ((</>))
-import System.Posix.ByteString.FilePath
-import System.Posix.Directory.ByteString as PosixBS
-import System.Posix.Directory.Traversals
-import qualified System.Posix.FilePath as PosixBS
-import System.Posix.Files.ByteString
-
-import Control.Exception
-import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8 as BS
-
-import System.Environment (getArgs, withArgs)
-import System.IO.Error
-import System.IO.Unsafe
-import System.Process (system)
-import Criterion.Main
-
-
--- | Based on code from 'Real World Haskell', at
--- http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/io-case-study-a-library-for-searching-the-filesystem.html#id620419
-listFilesRecursive :: FilePath -> IO [FilePath]
-listFilesRecursive topdir = do
-    names <- System.Directory.getDirectoryContents topdir
-    let properNames = filter (`notElem` [".", ".."]) names
-    paths <- forM properNames $ \name -> do
-        let path = topdir </> name
-        isDir <- doesDirectoryExist path
-        if isDir
-            then listFilesRecursive path
-            else return [path]
-    return (topdir : concat paths)
-
-----------------------------------------------------------
-
-getDirectoryContentsBS :: RawFilePath -> IO [RawFilePath]
-getDirectoryContentsBS path = 
-  modifyIOError ((`ioeSetFileName` (BS.unpack path)) .
-                 (`ioeSetLocation` "getDirectoryContentsBS")) $ do
-    bracket
-      (PosixBS.openDirStream path)
-      PosixBS.closeDirStream
-      loop
- where
-  loop dirp = do
-     e <- PosixBS.readDirStream dirp
-     if BS.null e then return [] else do
-       es <- loop dirp
-       return (e:es)
-
-
--- | similar to 'listFilesRecursive, but uses RawFilePaths
-listFilesRecursiveBS :: RawFilePath -> IO [RawFilePath]
-listFilesRecursiveBS topdir = do
-    names <- getDirectoryContentsBS topdir
-    let properNames = filter (`notElem` [".", ".."]) names
-    paths <- forM properNames $ \name -> unsafeInterleaveIO $ do
-        let path = PosixBS.combine topdir name
-        isDir <- isDirectory <$> getFileStatus path
-        if isDir
-            then listFilesRecursiveBS path
-            else return [path]
-    return (topdir : concat paths)
-----------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-benchTraverse :: RawFilePath -> IO ()
-benchTraverse = traverseDirectory (\() p -> BS.putStrLn p) ()
-
-main :: IO ()
-main = do
-  args <- getArgs
-  let (d,otherArgs) = case args of
-          []   -> ("/usr/local",[])
-          x:xs -> (x,xs)
-  withArgs otherArgs $ defaultMain
-    [ bench "traverse (FilePath)"      $ nfIO $ listFilesRecursive d >>= mapM_ putStrLn
-    , bench "traverse (RawFilePath)"   $ nfIO $ listFilesRecursiveBS (BS.pack d) >>= mapM_ BS.putStrLn
-    , bench "allDirectoryContents"     $ nfIO $ allDirectoryContents (BS.pack d) >>= mapM_ BS.putStrLn
-    , bench "allDirectoryContents'"    $ nfIO $ allDirectoryContents' (BS.pack d) >>= mapM_ BS.putStrLn
-    , bench "traverseDirectory"        $ nfIO $ benchTraverse (BS.pack d)
-    , bench "unix find"                $ nfIO $ void $ system ("find " ++ d)
-    ]
diff --git a/hpath.cabal b/hpath.cabal
index ec8b864..a199b26 100644
--- a/hpath.cabal
+++ b/hpath.cabal
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ build-type:          Simple
 cabal-version:       >=1.14
 extra-source-files:  README.md
                      CHANGELOG
-                     benchmarks/*.hs
                      cbits/dirutils.h
                      doctests-hpath.hs
                      doctests-posix.hs
@@ -103,23 +102,6 @@ test-suite spec
                       , unix-bytestring
                       , utf8-string
 
-benchmark bench.hs
-  default-language: Haskell2010
-  type: exitcode-stdio-1.0
-  hs-source-dirs: benchmarks
-  main-is:        Bench.hs
-
-  build-depends:
-      base,
-      hpath,
-      bytestring,
-      unix,
-      directory  >= 1.1 && < 1.3,
-      filepath   >= 1.2 && < 1.5,
-      process    >= 1.0 && < 1.3,
-      criterion  >= 0.6 && < 1.2
-  ghc-options: -O2
-
 source-repository head
   type:     git
   location: https://github.com/hasufell/hpath