diff --git a/bench/benchmark.org b/bench/benchmark.org
index c6e9bd2..b0c5b73 100644
--- a/bench/benchmark.org
+++ b/bench/benchmark.org
@@ -155,17 +155,17 @@ Parsing large amounts of binary data. For JSON & XML base64 encoding was used.
 Note that the results below include only the parsing time, base64 decoding was
 not performed.
 
-| input:  |   PSYC |         |   JSON |            |            |       XML |          |
-| parser: | strlen | libpsyc | json-c |  json-glib | libxml sax |    libxml | rapidxml |
-|---------+--------+---------+--------+------------+------------+-----------+----------|
-| 7K      |     92 |      77 |  14459 |      98000 |      11445 |     19299 |     8701 |
-| 70K     |     53 |      77 |  14509 |    1003900 |      96209 |    167738 |    74296 |
-| 700K    |     42 |      77 |  14551 |   10616000 |     842025 |   1909428 |   729419 |
-| 7M      |    258 |      78 |  14555 |  120810000 |   12466610 |  16751363 |  7581169 |
-| 70M     |    304 |      80 |  14534 | 1241000000 |  169622110 | 296017820 | 75308906 |
-|---------+--------+---------+--------+------------+------------+-----------+----------|
-| /       |      < |       > |      < |          > |          < |           |        > |
-| <r>     |        |         |        |            |            |           |          |
+|  input: |     PSYC |         |      JSON |            |            |       XML |          |
+| parser: |   strlen | libpsyc |    json-c |  json-glib | libxml sax |    libxml | rapidxml |
+|---------+----------+---------+-----------+------------+------------+-----------+----------|
+|      7K |      978 |      77 |     18609 |      98000 |      11445 |     19299 |     8701 |
+|     70K |     9613 |      77 |    187540 |    1003900 |      96209 |    167738 |    74296 |
+|    700K |    95888 |      77 |   1883500 |   10616000 |     842025 |   1909428 |   729419 |
+|      7M |  1347300 |      78 |  26359000 |  120810000 |   12466610 |  16751363 |  7581169 |
+|     70M | 14414000 |      80 | 357010000 | 1241000000 |  169622110 | 296017820 | 75308906 |
+|---------+----------+---------+-----------+------------+------------+-----------+----------|
+|       / |        < |       > |         < |          > |          < |           |        > |
+|     <r> |          |         |           |            |            |           |          |
 
 
 These tests were performed on a 2.53 GHz Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo P9500 CPU.
diff --git a/test/Makefile b/test/Makefile
index f7f49ea..29b0d05 100644
--- a/test/Makefile
+++ b/test/Makefile
@@ -87,16 +87,16 @@ bench-dir:
 	@mkdir -p ../bench/results
 
 bench-psyc: bench-dir testStrlen testPsycSpeed
-	for f in ../bench/packets/*.psyc ../bench/packets/binary/*.psyc; do bf=`basename $$f`; echo strlen: $$bf; ./testStrlen -sc 1000000 -f $$f | ${TEE} -a ../bench/results/$$bf.strlen; done
-	for f in ../bench/packets/*.psyc ../bench/packets/binary/*.psyc; do bf=`basename $$f`; echo libpsyc: $$f; ./testPsycSpeed -sc 1000000 -f $$f | ${TEE} -a ../bench/results/$$bf; done
+	for f in ../bench/packets/*.psyc `ls ../bench/packets/binary/*.psyc | sort -r`; do bf=`basename $$f`; echo strlen: $$bf; ./testStrlen -sc 1000000 -f $$f | ${TEE} -a ../bench/results/$$bf.strlen; done
+	for f in ../bench/packets/*.psyc `ls ../bench/packets/binary/*.psyc | sort -r`; do bf=`basename $$f`; echo libpsyc: $$f; ./testPsycSpeed -sc 1000000 -f $$f | ${TEE} -a ../bench/results/$$bf; done
 
 bench-json: bench-dir testStrlen testJson testJsonGlib
-	for f in ../bench/packets/*.json ../bench/packets/binary/*.json; do bf=`basename $$f`; echo strlen: $$bf; ./testStrlen -sc 1000000 -f $$f | ${TEE} -a ../bench/results/$$bf.strlen; done
-	for f in ../bench/packets/*.json ../bench/packets/binary/*.json; do bf=`basename $$f`; echo json-c: $$bf; ./testJson -snc 1000000 -f $$f | ${TEE} -a ../bench/results/$$bf; done
+#	for f in ../bench/packets/*.json `ls ../bench/packets/binary/*.json | sort -r`; do bf=`basename $$f`; echo strlen: $$bf; ./testStrlen -sc 1000000 -f $$f | ${TEE} -a ../bench/results/$$bf.strlen; done
+	for f in ../bench/packets/*.json `ls ../bench/packets/binary/*.json | sort -r`; do bf=`basename $$f`; echo json-c: $$bf; ./testJson -snc 1000000 -f $$f | ${TEE} -a ../bench/results/$$bf; done
 	for f in ../bench/packets/*.json; do bf=`basename $$f`; echo json-glib: $$bf; ./testJsonGlib -snc 1000000 -f $$f | ${TEE} -a ../bench/results/$$bf-glib; done
 
 bench-xml: bench-dir testStrlen
-	for f in ../bench/packets/*.xml ../bench/packets/binary/*.xml; do bf=`basename $$f`; echo strlen: $$bf; ./testStrlen -sc 1000000 -f $$f | ${TEE} -a ../bench/results/$$bf.strlen; done
+#	for f in ../bench/packets/*.xml `ls ../bench/packets/binary/*.xml | sort -r`; do bf=`basename $$f`; echo strlen: $$bf; ./testStrlen -sc 1000000 -f $$f | ${TEE} -a ../bench/results/$$bf.strlen; done
 
 bench-genpkts:
 	@${MAKE} genpkt header=../bench/packets/binary/psyc-header content=../bench/packets/binary/psyc-content bs=7000 of=../bench/packets/binary/7K.psyc
diff --git a/test/test.c b/test/test.c
index 6c30028..1265a5c 100644
--- a/test/test.c
+++ b/test/test.c
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ void *get_in_addr (struct sockaddr *sa) {
 
 void test_file(const char* filename, size_t count, size_t recv_buf_size) {
 	char *buf, *recvbuf; // cont buf + recv buf: [  ccrrrr]
-	size_t i, nbytes, size = 0;
+	size_t i, nbytes, size;
 	struct timeval start, end;
 	struct stat st;
 
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ void test_file(const char* filename, size_t count, size_t recv_buf_size) {
 
 	fstat(fd, &st);
 
-	buf = malloc(CONT_BUF_SIZE + st.st_size);
+	size = CONT_BUF_SIZE + st.st_size;
+	buf = malloc(size);
 	if (!buf) {
 		perror("malloc");
 		exit(1);
@@ -77,13 +78,26 @@ void test_file(const char* filename, size_t count, size_t recv_buf_size) {
 		if (stats)
 			gettimeofday(&start, NULL);
 
+#ifdef NOREAD
+		memset(buf, 1, size);
+#else
+		size = 0;
+#endif
+
 		for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
+#ifndef NOREAD
 			while ((nbytes = read(fd, (void*)recvbuf, recv_buf_size)))
+#endif
 				test_input(0, recvbuf, nbytes);
 
 	} else {
+#ifdef NOREAD
+		memset(buf, 1, size);
+#else
+		size = 0;
 		while ((nbytes = read(fd, (void*)recvbuf + size, RECV_BUF_SIZE)))
 			size += nbytes;
+#endif
 
 		if (stats)
 			gettimeofday(&start, NULL);
diff --git a/test/testStrlen.c b/test/testStrlen.c
index 9bd6866..40a50a5 100644
--- a/test/testStrlen.c
+++ b/test/testStrlen.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <getopt.h>
 #include <sys/socket.h>
 
+#define NOREAD
 #include "test.c"
 
 // cmd line args