diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 97f73f5..c211f77 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ test:
 test-sushi:
 	@(cd cmd/burntsushi-tester; go build)
 	@echo -n "BurntSushi tests: "
-	@(cd cmd/burntsushi-tester && ${GOPATH}/bin/toml-test ./burntsushi-tester)
+	@(/bin/bash -c "time ${GOPATH}/bin/toml-test ./cmd/burntsushi-tester/burntsushi-tester")
diff --git a/cmd/burntsushi-tester/main.go b/cmd/burntsushi-tester/main.go
index 990c77b..0161db2 100644
--- a/cmd/burntsushi-tester/main.go
+++ b/cmd/burntsushi-tester/main.go
@@ -6,16 +6,20 @@ package main
 import (
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
 	"log"
 	"os"
 	"path"
+	"time"
 
 	"git.makaay.nl/mauricem/go-toml/parse"
+	"github.com/pkg/profile"
 )
 
-func init() {
-	log.SetFlags(0)
+var doProfile *int
 
+func init() {
+	doProfile = flag.Int("p", 0, "Perform pprof profiling (value is number of run loops)")
 	flag.Usage = usage
 	flag.Parse()
 }
@@ -28,11 +32,24 @@ func usage() {
 }
 
 func main() {
-	if flag.NArg() != 0 {
-		flag.Usage()
+	if *doProfile > 0 {
+		fmt.Println("Profiling ...")
+		inputBytes, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(os.Stdin)
+		inputStr := string(inputBytes)
+		p := profile.Start()
+		start := time.Now()
+		for i := 0; i < *doProfile; i++ {
+			parse.Run(inputStr)
+			fmt.Printf("cycle %d / %d\r", i+1, *doProfile)
+		}
+		duration := time.Since(start)
+		p.Stop()
+		fmt.Printf("\n")
+		fmt.Println("Duration:", duration)
+		return
 	}
 
-	toml, err := parse.RunWithoutSanityChecks(os.Stdin)
+	toml, err := parse.Run(os.Stdin)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("Error decoding TOML: %s", err)
 	} else {
diff --git a/parse/parse.go b/parse/parse.go
index 0f9141f..532de9c 100644
--- a/parse/parse.go
+++ b/parse/parse.go
@@ -57,11 +57,3 @@ func Run(input interface{}) (ast.Table, error) {
 	err := parse.New(p.startDocument)(input)
 	return p.doc.Root, err
 }
-
-// RunWithoutSanityChecks runs the TOML parser against the provided input data.
-// The parsekit sanity checks are disabled during the parse run.
-func RunWithoutSanityChecks(input interface{}) (ast.Table, error) {
-	p := newParser()
-	err := parse.New(p.startDocument)(input)
-	return p.doc.Root, err
-}
diff --git a/parse2/grammar.go b/parse2/grammar.go
index d10496b..ac5a678 100644
--- a/parse2/grammar.go
+++ b/parse2/grammar.go
@@ -1,39 +1,57 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"flag"
 	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"log"
 	"math"
 	"os"
+	"path"
 	"time"
 
 	"git.makaay.nl/mauricem/go-parsekit/tokenize"
 	"github.com/pkg/profile"
 )
 
-const runProfiler = true
+var doProfile *int
+
+func init() {
+	doProfile = flag.Int("p", 0, "Perform pprof profiling (value is number of run loops)")
+	flag.Usage = usage
+	flag.Parse()
+}
+
+func usage() {
+	log.Printf("Usage: %s < <path to TOML-file>\n", path.Base(os.Args[0]))
+	flag.PrintDefaults()
+
+	os.Exit(1)
+}
 
 func main() {
-	bytes, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(os.Stdin)
-	input := string(bytes)
-
 	toml := BuildGrammar()
-
 	var result *tokenize.Result
 	var err error
 
-	if runProfiler {
-		t := profile.Start() //profile.CPUProfile)
-		for i := 0; i < 20; i++ {
-			fmt.Printf(".")
-			result, err = toml.Match(input)
+	if *doProfile > 0 {
+		fmt.Println("Profiling ...")
+		inputBytes, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(os.Stdin)
+		inputStr := string(inputBytes)
+		p := profile.Start()
+		start := time.Now()
+		for i := 0; i < *doProfile; i++ {
+			result, err = toml.Match(inputStr)
+			fmt.Printf("cycle %d / %d, tokens=%d\r", i+1, *doProfile, len(result.Tokens))
 		}
-		t.Stop()
-	} else {
-		result, err = toml.Match(input)
+		duration := time.Since(start)
+		fmt.Printf("\n")
+		fmt.Println("Duration:", duration)
+		p.Stop()
+		return
 	}
 
+	result, err = toml.Match(os.Stdin)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("Error in parsing TOML: %s\n", err)
 	} else {
diff --git a/parse2/parse2 b/parse2/parse2
index 0d6afc8..fcce0a9 100755
Binary files a/parse2/parse2 and b/parse2/parse2 differ
diff --git a/parse2/performance_timings.txt b/parse2/performance_timings.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..abc99c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/parse2/performance_timings.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+0.004   burntsushi tester with x
+1.347   burntsushi profile cycle 1000 with x
+0.005   parse2 non-profile mode with x
+1.850   parse2 profile cycle 1000 with x
+
+0.098   burntsushi with long.toml
+0.950   burntsushi profile cycle 10 with long.toml
+0.190   parse2 non-profile mode with long.toml
+1.843   parse2 profile cycle 10 with long.toml
+
+0.213  parse test set
+0.239  burntsushi test set
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/parse2/profile-sushi.sh b/parse2/profile-sushi.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..e55d9f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/parse2/profile-sushi.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+#cd $GOPATH/src/git.makaay.nl/mauricem/go-toml/cmd/burntsushi-tester/
+#go build
+#go install
+#cd $GOPATH/src/git.makaay.nl/mauricem/go-toml/parse2
+#PPFILE=`cat long.toml | $GOPATH/bin/burntsushi-tester 2>&1 | grep "profiling enabled" | cut -d, -f2`
+#echo $PPFILE
+
+#ppfile=` | ./parse2 2>&1 | grep "cpu profiling enabled" | cut -d, -f2`
+
+cd ../cmd/burntsushi-tester
+go build
+cd ../../parse2
+ppfile=`cat x | ../cmd/burntsushi-tester/burntsushi-tester -p 100 2>&1 | grep "profiling enabled" | cut -d, -f2`
+go tool pprof -http 0.0.0.0:8888 ../cmd/burntsushi-tester/burntsushi-tester $ppfile
+
diff --git a/parse2/profile.sh b/parse2/profile.sh
index aafb6bc..2961ac0 100755
--- a/parse2/profile.sh
+++ b/parse2/profile.sh
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@
 #ppfile=` | ./parse2 2>&1 | grep "cpu profiling enabled" | cut -d, -f2`
 
 go build
-ppfile=`cat long.toml | time ./parse2 2>&1 | grep "profiling enabled" | cut -d, -f2`
+ppfile=`cat long.toml | ./parse2 -p 10 2>&1 | grep "profiling enabled" | cut -d, -f2`
 go tool pprof -http 0.0.0.0:8888 ./parse2 $ppfile