diff --git a/src/test/bench/silly-test-spawn.rs b/src/test/bench/silly-test-spawn.rs
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+++ b/src/test/bench/silly-test-spawn.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.
+
+// Useful smoketest for scheduler performance.
+fn main() {
+    for _ in range(1, 100_000) {
+        do spawn { }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/bench/spawnone.rs b/src/test/bench/spawnone.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.
+
+// Useful for checking syscall usage of baseline scheduler usage
+fn main() {
+    do spawn { }
+}