diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3651fe5..7b6c535 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ Since this isn't a module with tons of installs and dependent modules I hope we
 
  * Small refactor in copy-from passing from 3 push to 2 push in every chunk transform loop
  * Add bench/ directory for benchmarks
+ * Add benchmark to compare performance of pg-copy-stream wrt psql during copy-from
+ * Add benchmark to measure memory usage of copy-from
 
 ### version 2.1.0 - published 2019-03-19
 
diff --git a/bench/copy-from-memory.js b/bench/copy-from-memory.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..370e225
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bench/copy-from-memory.js
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+var cp = require('duplex-child-process');
+var pg = require('pg')
+
+var copy = require('../').from
+
+var client = function() {
+  var client = new pg.Client()
+  client.connect()
+  return client
+}
+
+var inStream = function() {
+  return cp.spawn('seq', ['0', '29999999']);
+}
+
+var running = true;
+
+var c = client();
+c.query('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS plugnumber', function() {
+  c.query('CREATE TABLE plugnumber (num int)', function() {
+    var seq = inStream()
+    var from = c.query(copy('COPY plugnumber FROM STDIN'))
+    seq.pipe(from);
+    from.on('end', function() {
+      running = false;
+      c.end();
+    })
+  })
+})  
+
+
+var rssMin = process.memoryUsage().rss / 1024 / 1024
+var rssMax = rssMin
+
+memlog = function() {
+  var rss = process.memoryUsage().rss / 1024 / 1024
+  rssMin = Math.min(rss, rssMin)
+  rssMax = Math.max(rss, rssMax)
+  console.log('rss:' + Math.round(rss*100)/100 + 'MB rssMin:'+ Math.round(rssMin*100)/100 + 'MB rssMax:' + Math.round(rssMax*100)/100 + 'MB')
+  if (running) {
+    setTimeout(memlog, 1000);
+  }
+}
+
+memlog()