diff --git a/src/test/bench/msgsend.rs b/src/test/bench/msgsend.rs
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-// Copyright 2012 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
-// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
-// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
-//
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
-// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
-// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
-// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
-// except according to those terms.
-
-// A port of the simplistic benchmark from
-//
-//    http://github.com/PaulKeeble/ScalaVErlangAgents
-//
-// I *think* it's the same, more or less.
-
-extern mod std;
-use io::Writer;
-use io::WriterUtil;
-
-enum request {
-    get_count,
-    bytes(uint),
-    stop
-}
-
-fn server(requests: comm::Port<request>, responses: comm::Chan<uint>) {
-    let mut count = 0u;
-    let mut done = false;
-    while !done {
-        match comm::recv(requests) {
-          get_count => { comm::send(responses, copy count); }
-          bytes(b) => { count += b; }
-          stop => { done = true; }
-        }
-    }
-    comm::send(responses, count);
-}
-
-fn run(args: ~[~str]) {
-    let (from_child, to_child) = do task::spawn_conversation |po, ch| {
-        server(po, ch);
-    };
-    let size = uint::from_str(args[1]).get();
-    let workers = uint::from_str(args[2]).get();
-    let start = std::time::precise_time_s();
-    let mut worker_results = ~[];
-    for uint::range(0, workers) |_i| {
-        do task::task().future_result(|+r| {
-            worker_results.push(move r);
-        }).spawn {
-            for uint::range(0, size / workers) |_i| {
-                comm::send(to_child, bytes(100));
-            }
-        };
-    }
-    for vec::each(worker_results) |r| {
-        r.recv();
-    }
-    comm::send(to_child, stop);
-    let result = comm::recv(from_child);
-    let end = std::time::precise_time_s();
-    let elapsed = end - start;
-    io::stdout().write_str(fmt!("Count is %?\n", result));
-    io::stdout().write_str(fmt!("Test took %? seconds\n", elapsed));
-    let thruput = ((size / workers * workers) as float) / (elapsed as float);
-    io::stdout().write_str(fmt!("Throughput=%f per sec\n", thruput));
-}
-
-fn main() {
-    let args = os::args();
-    let args = if os::getenv(~"RUST_BENCH").is_some() {
-        ~[~"", ~"1000000", ~"10000"]
-    } else if args.len() <= 1u {
-        ~[~"", ~"10000", ~"4"]
-    } else {
-        args
-    };
-
-    debug!("%?", args);
-    run(args);
-}
-