diff --git a/gui/test/benchmark/simple/benchmarksimple.cpp b/gui/test/benchmark/simple/benchmarksimple.cpp
index 77f3be9cc..86e23a6ff 100644
--- a/gui/test/benchmark/simple/benchmarksimple.cpp
+++ b/gui/test/benchmark/simple/benchmarksimple.cpp
@@ -63,4 +63,22 @@ void BenchmarkSimple::simplify()
     }
 }
 
+void BenchmarkSimple::tokenizeAndSimplify()
+{
+    QFile file(QString(SRCDIR) + "/../../data/benchmark/simple.cpp");
+    QByteArray data = file.readAll();
+
+    Settings settings;
+    settings.debugwarnings = true;
+
+    // tokenize..
+    Tokenizer tokenizer(&settings, this);
+    std::istringstream istr(data.constData());
+    QBENCHMARK
+    {
+        tokenizer.tokenize(istr, "test.cpp");
+        tokenizer.simplifyTokenList();
+    }
+}
+
 QTEST_MAIN(BenchmarkSimple)
diff --git a/gui/test/benchmark/simple/benchmarksimple.h b/gui/test/benchmark/simple/benchmarksimple.h
index 56d440f68..1bb0ea08f 100644
--- a/gui/test/benchmark/simple/benchmarksimple.h
+++ b/gui/test/benchmark/simple/benchmarksimple.h
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ class BenchmarkSimple: public QObject, public ErrorLogger
 private slots:
     void tokenize();
     void simplify();
+    void tokenizeAndSimplify();
 
 private:
     // Empty implementations of ErrorLogger methods.