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+! Copyright (C) 2014 John Benediktsson
+! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license
+
+USING: io.encodings.ascii io.files kernel lexer math ;
+
+IN: benchmark.lexer
+
+: lexer-benchmark ( -- )
+    10,000 "vocab:math/math.factor" ascii file-lines [
+        <lexer> [ parse-token ] curry loop
+    ] curry times ;
+
+MAIN: lexer-benchmark