diff --git a/src/core/parser/EscapeSequenceParser.benchmark.ts b/benchmark-tests/EscapeSequenceParser.benchmark.ts
similarity index 97%
rename from src/core/parser/EscapeSequenceParser.benchmark.ts
rename to benchmark-tests/EscapeSequenceParser.benchmark.ts
index 392774dd..d64f5812 100644
--- a/src/core/parser/EscapeSequenceParser.benchmark.ts
+++ b/benchmark-tests/EscapeSequenceParser.benchmark.ts
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
  */
 import { perfContext, before, beforeEach, ThroughputRuntimeCase } from 'xterm-benchmark';
 
-import { EscapeSequenceParser } from 'core/parser/EscapeSequenceParser';
-import { C0, C1 } from 'common/data/EscapeSequences';
-import { IDcsHandler } from './Types';
+import { EscapeSequenceParser } from '../out/common/parser/EscapeSequenceParser';
+import { C0, C1 } from '../out/common/data/EscapeSequences';
+import { IDcsHandler } from '../out/common/parser/Types';
 
 
 function toUtf32(s: string): Uint32Array {
diff --git a/src/Terminal.benchmark.ts b/benchmark-tests/Terminal.benchmark.ts
similarity index 84%
rename from src/Terminal.benchmark.ts
rename to benchmark-tests/Terminal.benchmark.ts
index 650ed655..9e5e10bc 100644
--- a/src/Terminal.benchmark.ts
+++ b/benchmark-tests/Terminal.benchmark.ts
@@ -5,19 +5,22 @@
 
 import { perfContext, before, ThroughputRuntimeCase } from 'xterm-benchmark';
 
-import { Terminal } from 'Terminal';
 import { spawn } from 'node-pty';
-import { Utf8ToUtf32, stringFromCodePoint } from 'core/input/TextDecoder';
+import { Utf8ToUtf32, stringFromCodePoint } from '../out/common/input/TextDecoder';
 
+const Terminal: any = require('../out/Terminal').Terminal;
 
 class TestTerminal extends Terminal {
+  constructor(opts: any) {
+    super(opts);
+  }
   writeSync(data: string): void {
     this.writeBuffer.push(data);
-    this._innerWrite();
+    (this as any)._innerWrite();
   }
   writeSyncUtf8(data: Uint8Array): void {
-    this.writeBufferUtf8.push(data);
-    this._innerWriteUtf8();
+    (this as any).writeBufferUtf8.push(data);
+    (this as any)._innerWriteUtf8();
   }
 }
 
@@ -33,7 +36,7 @@ perfContext('Terminal: ls -lR /usr', () => {
       rows: 25,
       cwd: process.env.HOME,
       env: process.env,
-      encoding: null
+      encoding: (null as unknown as string) // needs to be fixed in node-pty
     });
     const chunks: Buffer[] = [];
     let length = 0;
diff --git a/benchmark-tests/benchmark.json b/benchmark-tests/benchmark.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7d8e2223
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmark-tests/benchmark.json
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+{
+  "evalConfig": {
+    "tolerance": {
+      "*": [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",
+      "*.dev",
+      "*.cv",
+      "EscapeSequenceParser.benchmark.js.*.averageRuntime",
+      "Terminal.benchmark.js.*.averageRuntime"
+    ]
+  } 
+}
diff --git a/benchmark-tests/tsconfig.json b/benchmark-tests/tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..02079d2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmark-tests/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "lib": [
+      "dom",
+      "es6",
+    ],
+    "rootDir": ".",
+    "outDir": "../benchmark",
+    "types": [
+      "../node_modules/@types/node"
+    ],
+    "sourceMap": true,
+    "removeComments": true,
+    "pretty": true,
+    "strict": true,
+    "baseUrl": ".",
+    "paths": {
+      "common/*": [ "./../out/common/*" ],
+      "browser/*": [ "./../out/browser/*" ]
+    },
+    "declaration": true
+  },
+  "include": [
+    "./**/*",
+    "../typings/xterm.d.ts"
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/tsconfig.all.json b/tsconfig.all.json
index d2670811..d8d8d20b 100644
--- a/tsconfig.all.json
+++ b/tsconfig.all.json
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
     { "path": "./addons/xterm-addon-attach/src" },
     { "path": "./addons/xterm-addon-fit/src" },
     { "path": "./addons/xterm-addon-search/src" },
-    { "path": "./addons/xterm-addon-web-links/src" }
+    { "path": "./addons/xterm-addon-web-links/src" },
+
+    // currently depends on out, thus must run as last?
+    { "path": "./benchmark-tests" },
   ]
 }