diff --git a/tokenize/api.go b/tokenize/api.go
index 2503c1a..e68b7c9 100644
--- a/tokenize/api.go
+++ b/tokenize/api.go
@@ -247,15 +247,8 @@ func (i *API) Fork() int {
 	i.stackLevel++
 	i.runeRead = false
 
-	// TODO do some good benchmarking on these two options. The explicit version might be
-	// the faster one, but I am not sure of that right now.
-	// A
-	// i.stackFrames[i.stackLevel] = *i.stackFrame
-	// i.stackFrame = &i.stackFrames[i.stackLevel]
-	// i.stackFrame.runeStart = i.stackFrame.runeEnd
-	// i.stackFrame.tokenStart = i.stackFrame.tokenEnd
-
-	// B
+	// This can be written in a shorter way, but this turned out to
+	// be the best way performance-wise.
 	parent := i.stackFrame
 	child := &i.stackFrames[i.stackLevel]
 	child.offset = parent.offset
diff --git a/tokenize/handlers_builtin.go b/tokenize/handlers_builtin.go
index b21ac69..e73acd8 100644
--- a/tokenize/handlers_builtin.go
+++ b/tokenize/handlers_builtin.go
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ var C = struct {
 //
 // Doing so saves you a lot of typing, and it makes your code a lot cleaner.
 var A = struct {
+	Byte           func(byte) Handler
+	Bytes          func(...byte) Handler
+	ByteRange      func(byte, byte) Handler
 	Rune           func(rune) Handler
 	Runes          func(...rune) Handler
 	RuneRange      func(rune, rune) Handler
@@ -75,6 +78,7 @@ var A = struct {
 	EndOfLine      Handler
 	EndOfFile      Handler
 	UntilEndOfLine Handler
+	AnyByte        Handler
 	AnyRune        Handler
 	ValidRune      Handler
 	InvalidRune    Handler
@@ -153,6 +157,9 @@ var A = struct {
 	IPv6CIDRMask   Handler
 	IPv6Net        Handler
 }{
+	Byte:           MatchByte,
+	Bytes:          MatchBytes,
+	ByteRange:      MatchByteRange,
 	Rune:           MatchRune,
 	Runes:          MatchRunes,
 	RuneRange:      MatchRuneRange,
@@ -161,6 +168,7 @@ var A = struct {
 	EndOfFile:      MatchEndOfFile(),
 	EndOfLine:      MatchEndOfLine(),
 	UntilEndOfLine: MatchUntilEndOfLine(),
+	AnyByte:        MatchAnyByte(),
 	AnyRune:        MatchAnyRune(),
 	ValidRune:      MatchValidRune(),
 	InvalidRune:    MatchInvalidRune(),
@@ -333,8 +341,23 @@ var T = struct {
 	Group:          MakeTokenGroup,
 }
 
+// MatchByte creates a Handler function that matches against the provided byte.
+func MatchByte(expected byte) Handler {
+	return func(t *API) bool {
+		b, err := t.PeekByte(0)
+		if err == nil && b == expected {
+			t.acceptBytes(b)
+			return true
+		}
+		return false
+	}
+}
+
 // MatchRune creates a Handler function that matches against the provided rune.
 func MatchRune(expected rune) Handler {
+	if expected <= 255 {
+		return MatchByte(byte(expected))
+	}
 	return func(t *API) bool {
 		r, w, err := t.PeekRune(0)
 		if err == nil && r == expected {
@@ -345,9 +368,39 @@ func MatchRune(expected rune) Handler {
 	}
 }
 
+// MatchBytes creates a Handler function that checks if the input matches
+// one of the provided bytes. The first match counts.
+func MatchBytes(expected ...byte) Handler {
+	return func(t *API) bool {
+		b, err := t.PeekByte(0)
+		if err != nil {
+			return false
+		}
+		for _, e := range expected {
+			if b == e {
+				t.acceptBytes(b)
+				return true
+			}
+		}
+		return false
+	}
+}
+
 // MatchRunes creates a Handler function that checks if the input matches
 // one of the provided runes. The first match counts.
 func MatchRunes(expected ...rune) Handler {
+	onlyBytes := true
+	expectedBytes := make([]byte, len(expected))
+	for i, r := range expected {
+		if r > 255 {
+			onlyBytes = false
+			break
+		}
+		expectedBytes[i] = byte(r)
+	}
+	if onlyBytes {
+		return MatchBytes(expectedBytes...)
+	}
 	return func(t *API) bool {
 		r, w, err := t.PeekRune(0)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -363,6 +416,27 @@ func MatchRunes(expected ...rune) Handler {
 	}
 }
 
+// MatchByteRange creates a Handler function that checks if the input
+// matches the provided byte range. The byte range is defined by a start and
+// an end byte, inclusive, so:
+//
+//     MatchByteRange('5', '9')
+//
+// creates a Handler that will match any of '5', '6', '7', '8' or '9'.
+func MatchByteRange(start byte, end byte) Handler {
+	if end < start {
+		callerPanic("MatchByteRange", "Handler: {name} definition error at {caller}: start %q must not be < end %q", start, end)
+	}
+	return func(t *API) bool {
+		r, err := t.PeekByte(0)
+		if err == nil && r >= start && r <= end {
+			t.acceptBytes(r)
+			return true
+		}
+		return false
+	}
+}
+
 // MatchRuneRange creates a Handler function that checks if the input
 // matches the provided rune range. The rune range is defined by a start and
 // an end rune, inclusive, so:
@@ -374,17 +448,8 @@ func MatchRuneRange(start rune, end rune) Handler {
 	if end < start {
 		callerPanic("MatchRuneRange", "Handler: {name} definition error at {caller}: start %q must not be < end %q", start, end)
 	}
-	if end <= 127 {
-		byteStart := byte(start)
-		byteEnd := byte(end)
-		return func(t *API) bool {
-			r, err := t.PeekByte(0)
-			if err == nil && r >= byteStart && r <= byteEnd {
-				t.acceptBytes(r)
-				return true
-			}
-			return false
-		}
+	if end <= 255 {
+		return MatchByteRange(byte(start), byte(end))
 	}
 	return func(t *API) bool {
 		r, w, err := t.PeekRune(0)
@@ -554,10 +619,20 @@ func MatchStr(expected string) Handler {
 	width := len(expected)
 
 	return func(t *API) bool {
-		for i, e := range expectedRunes {
-			r, _, err := t.PeekRune(i)
-			if err != nil || e != r {
-				return false
+		offset := 0
+		for _, e := range expectedRunes {
+			if e <= 255 {
+				b, err := t.PeekByte(offset)
+				if err != nil || b != byte(e) {
+					return false
+				}
+				offset++
+			} else {
+				r, w, err := t.PeekRune(offset)
+				if err != nil || e != r {
+					return false
+				}
+				offset += w
 			}
 		}
 		t.acceptRunes(width, expectedRunes...)
@@ -569,16 +644,26 @@ func MatchStr(expected string) Handler {
 // provided string in a case-insensitive manner.
 func MatchStrNoCase(expected string) Handler {
 	l := len([]rune(expected))
+
 	return func(t *API) bool {
 		matches := make([]rune, l)
 		width := 0
 		for i, e := range expected {
-			r, w, err := t.PeekRune(i)
-			if err != nil || unicode.ToUpper(e) != unicode.ToUpper(r) {
-				return false
+			if e <= 255 {
+				b, err := t.PeekByte(width)
+				if err != nil || (b != byte(e) && unicode.ToUpper(rune(b)) != unicode.ToUpper(rune(e))) {
+					return false
+				}
+				matches[i] = rune(b)
+				width++
+			} else {
+				r, w, err := t.PeekRune(width)
+				if err != nil || (r != e && unicode.ToUpper(r) != unicode.ToUpper(e)) {
+					return false
+				}
+				matches[i] = r
+				width += w
 			}
-			matches[i] = r
-			width += w
 		}
 		t.acceptRunes(width, matches...)
 		return true
@@ -882,14 +967,26 @@ func MatchUntilEndOfLine() Handler {
 	return MatchOneOrMore(MatchNot(MatchEndOfLine()))
 }
 
+// MatchAnyByte creates a Handler function that accepts any byte from the input.
+func MatchAnyByte() Handler {
+	return func(t *API) bool {
+		b, err := t.PeekByte(0)
+		if err == nil {
+			t.acceptBytes(b)
+			return true
+		}
+		return false
+	}
+}
+
 // MatchAnyRune creates a Handler function that checks if a rune can be
 // read from the input. Invalid runes on the input are replaced with the UTF8
 // replacement rune \uFFFD (i.e. utf8.RuneError), which displays as �.
 func MatchAnyRune() Handler {
 	return func(t *API) bool {
-		_, err := t.NextRune()
+		r, w, err := t.PeekRune(0)
 		if err == nil {
-			t.Accept()
+			t.acceptRunes(w, r)
 			return true
 		}
 		return false