diff --git a/core/Cargo.toml b/core/Cargo.toml
index e40e388..1fab0eb 100644
--- a/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -47,11 +47,7 @@ xml-builder = "0.5.0"
 [dev-dependencies]
 criterion = "0.3"
 
-[[bench]]
-name = "performance"
-harness = false
-
 [features]
 default = []
 elf_support = []
-debugger = ["nom", "rustyline", "fuzzy-matcher", "elf_support"]
\ No newline at end of file
+debugger = ["nom", "rustyline", "fuzzy-matcher", "elf_support"]
diff --git a/core/benches/performance.rs b/core/benches/performance.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index 402414b..0000000
--- a/core/benches/performance.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-/// Measure first 60 frames bigmap.gba from tonc demos
-///
-use criterion::{black_box, criterion_group, criterion_main, BatchSize, Criterion};
-
-use std::cell::RefCell;
-use std::rc::Rc;
-
-use rustboyadvance_core::prelude::*;
-
-fn create_gba() -> GameBoyAdvance {
-    // TODO: do I really want this file in my repository ?
-    let bios = include_bytes!("roms/normatt_gba_bios.bin");
-    let bigmap_rom = include_bytes!("roms/bigmap.gba");
-
-    let gpak = GamepakBuilder::new()
-        .take_buffer(bigmap_rom.to_vec().into_boxed_slice())
-        .with_sram()
-        .without_backup_to_file()
-        .build()
-        .unwrap();
-
-    let mut gba = GameBoyAdvance::new(bios.to_vec().into_boxed_slice(), gpak, NullAudio::new());
-    gba.skip_bios();
-    // skip initialization of the ROM to get to a stabilized scene
-    for _ in 0..60 {
-        gba.frame();
-    }
-    gba
-}
-
-pub fn performance_benchmark(c: &mut Criterion) {
-    c.bench_function("run_60_frames", |b| {
-        b.iter_batched(
-            // setup
-            || create_gba(),
-            // bencher
-            |mut gba| {
-                for _ in 0..60 {
-                    black_box(gba.frame())
-                }
-            },
-            BatchSize::SmallInput,
-        )
-    });
-}
-
-criterion_group! {
-    name = benches;
-    config = Criterion::default().sample_size(10);
-    targets = performance_benchmark
-}
-criterion_main!(benches);
diff --git a/core/benches/roms/README.md b/core/benches/roms/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e830618..0000000
--- a/core/benches/roms/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# Files
-
-* bigmap.gba - This is a test rom from TONC, more test roms can be obtained from https://www.coranac.com/files/tonc-bin.zip
-* normatt_gba_bios.bin - An open source GBA bios rom that can obtained from https://github.com/Nebuleon/ReGBA/raw/master/bios/gba_bios.bin
diff --git a/core/benches/roms/bigmap.gba b/core/benches/roms/bigmap.gba
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diff --git a/core/benches/roms/normatt_gba_bios.bin b/core/benches/roms/normatt_gba_bios.bin
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