diff --git a/benchmark.json b/benchmark.json
index 4d70f0ab..7d8e2223 100644
--- a/benchmark.json
+++ b/benchmark.json
@@ -1,11 +1,18 @@
 {
   "evalConfig": {
     "tolerance": {
-      "*": [0.75, 1.5]
+      "*": [0.75, 1.5],
+      "*.dev": [0.01, 1.5],
+      "*.cv": [0.01, 1.5],
+      "EscapeSequenceParser.benchmark.js.*.averageThroughput.mean": [0.9, 5]
     },
     "skip": [
       "*.median",
-      "*.runs"
+      "*.runs",
+      "*.dev",
+      "*.cv",
+      "EscapeSequenceParser.benchmark.js.*.averageRuntime",
+      "Terminal.benchmark.js.*.averageRuntime"
     ]
   } 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/bin/benchmark.js b/bin/benchmark.js
index a03f6e16..894d98db 100644
--- a/bin/benchmark.js
+++ b/bin/benchmark.js
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ env.NODE_PATH = path.resolve(__dirname, '../out');
  */
 const commands = {
   single  : '-c benchmark.json',
-  baseline: '--baseline -r 10 -c benchmark.json',
-  eval    : '--eval -r 10 -c benchmark.json'
+  baseline: '--baseline -r 5 -c benchmark.json',
+  eval    : '--eval -r 5 -c benchmark.json'
 }
 
 let testFiles = [
diff --git a/src/Terminal.benchmark.ts b/src/Terminal.benchmark.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fafd85cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Terminal.benchmark.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+import { perfContext, before, ThroughputRuntimeCase } from 'xterm-benchmark';
+
+import { Terminal } from 'Terminal';
+import { spawn } from 'node-pty';
+import { Utf8ToUtf32, stringFromCodePoint } from '../out/core/input/TextDecoder';
+
+
+class TestTerminal extends Terminal {
+  writeSync(data: string): void {
+    this.writeBuffer.push(data);
+    this._innerWrite();
+  }
+  writeSyncUtf8(data: Uint8Array): void {
+    this.writeBufferUtf8.push(data);
+    this._innerWriteUtf8();
+  }
+}
+
+perfContext('Terminal: ls -lR /usr', () => {
+  let content = '';
+  let contentUtf8: Uint8Array;
+
+  before(async () => {
+    // grab output from "ls -lR /usr"
+    const p = spawn('ls', ['--color=auto', '-lR', '/usr'], {
+      name: 'xterm-color',
+      cols: 80,
+      rows: 25,
+      cwd: process.env.HOME,
+      env: process.env,
+      encoding: null
+    });
+    const chunks: Buffer[] = [];
+    let length = 0;
+    p.on('data', data => {
+      chunks.push(data as unknown as Buffer);
+      length += data.length;
+    });
+    await new Promise(resolve => p.on('exit', () => resolve()));
+    contentUtf8 = Buffer.concat(chunks, length);
+    // translate to content string
+    const buffer = new Uint32Array(contentUtf8.length);
+    const decoder = new Utf8ToUtf32();
+    const codepoints = decoder.decode(contentUtf8, buffer);
+    for (let i = 0; i < codepoints; ++i) {
+      content += stringFromCodePoint(buffer[i]);
+      // peek into content to force flat repr in v8
+      if (!(i % 10000000)) {
+        content[i];
+      }
+    }
+  });
+
+  perfContext('write', () => {
+    let terminal: TestTerminal;
+    before(() => {
+      terminal = new TestTerminal({cols: 80, rows: 25, scrollback: 1000});
+    });
+    new ThroughputRuntimeCase('', () => {
+      terminal.writeSync(content);
+      return {payloadSize: contentUtf8.length};
+    }, {fork: false}).showAverageThroughput();
+  });
+
+  perfContext('writeUtf8', () => {
+    let terminal: TestTerminal;
+    before(() => {
+      terminal = new TestTerminal({cols: 80, rows: 25, scrollback: 1000});
+    });
+    new ThroughputRuntimeCase('', () => {
+      terminal.writeSyncUtf8(contentUtf8);
+      return {payloadSize: contentUtf8.length};
+    }, {fork: false}).showAverageThroughput();
+  });
+});