diff --git a/test/benchmark.js b/test/benchmark.js
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-#!/usr/bin/env node
-
-// small benchmark to execute with nodejs
-
-var http = require('http')
-
-if ( process.argv.length < 3 ) {
-  console.error("Usage: " + process.argv[1] + " <baseurl> [<map_key>]");
-  process.exit(1);
-}
-
-var baseurl = process.argv[2];
-console.log("Baseurl is " + baseurl);
-var baseurl_comps = baseurl.match(/(https?:\/\/)?([^:\/]*)(:([^\/]*))?(\/.*).*/);
-
-var options = {
-  host: baseurl_comps[2],
-  port: baseurl_comps[4] ? baseurl_comps[4] : 8181,
-  path: baseurl_comps[5] + '/{z}/{x}/{y}.png?cache_buster=0'
-};
-
-if ( process.argv.length > 3 ) {
-  options.path += '&map_key=' + process.argv[3]; 
-}
-
-console.dir(options);
-
-function randInt(min, max) {
-    return min + Math.floor(Math.random()*(max- min +1));
-}
-
-var start_time = new Date().getTime();
-function end() {
-    var end_time = new Date().getTime();
-    var t = (end_time - start_time)/1000;
-    console.log("ok: ", ok)
-    console.log("error: ", error)
-    console.log("time: ", t);
-    console.log("req/s: ", ok/t);
-}
-
-var N = 1000
-var ok = 0;
-var error = 0;
-
-function fail(msg) {
-  console.log(msg);
-  ++ error;
-  if ( error + ok === N ) end();
-}
-
-function pass() {
-  ++ ok;
-  if ( error + ok === N ) end();
-}
-
-for(var i = 0; i < N; ++i) {
-    var opt = {
-        host: options.host,
-        port: options.port,
-        path: new String(options.path)
-    };
-    opt.path = opt.path.replace('{z}', 2).replace('{x}', randInt(0, 3)).replace('{y}', randInt(0, 3));
-    //console.log(opt.path)
-    http.get(opt, function(res) {
-      res.body = '';
-      res.on('data', function(chunk) {
-        // Save only first chunk, to reduce cost of the operation
-        if ( res.body.length == 0 ) res.body += chunk;
-      });
-      res.on('end', function() {
-        if ( res.statusCode == 200 ) pass();
-        else {
-          fail(res.statusCode + ' http://' + opt.host + ':' + opt.port + opt.path + ' ' + res.body);
-        }
-      });
-    }).on('error', function(e) {
-        fail('unknown (http) error');
-    });
-}
-