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+package com.zaxxer.hikari.performance;
+
+import java.sql.Connection;
+import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
+import java.sql.ResultSet;
+import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
+import java.util.concurrent.CyclicBarrier;
+
+import javax.sql.DataSource;
+
+import com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig;
+import com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource;
+
+public class Benchmarks
+{
+    private static final int THREADS = Integer.getInteger("threads", 100);
+
+    private DataSource ds;
+
+    public static void main(String... args)
+    {
+        if (args.length == 0)
+        {
+            System.err.println("Start with one of: hikari, bone, c3p0, dbcp");
+            System.exit(0);
+        }
+
+        Benchmarks benchmarks = new Benchmarks();
+        if (args[0].equals("hikari"))
+        {
+            benchmarks.ds = benchmarks.setupHikari();
+        }
+
+        benchmarks.start();
+    }
+
+    private DataSource setupHikari()
+    {
+        HikariConfig config = new HikariConfig();
+        config.setMinimumPoolSize(1);
+        config.setMaximumPoolSize(100);
+        config.setConnectionTimeoutMs(5000);
+        config.setConnectionTestQuery("VALUES 1");
+        config.setDataSourceClassName("com.zaxxer.hikari.mocks.MockDataSource");
+        config.setProxyFactoryClassName(System.getProperty("testProxy", "auto"));
+        config.setProxyFactoryClassName(System.getProperty("testProxy", "com.zaxxer.hikari.CglibProxyFactory"));
+
+        HikariDataSource ds = new HikariDataSource();
+        ds.setConfiguration(config);
+        return ds;
+    }
+
+    private void start()
+    {
+        CyclicBarrier barrier = new CyclicBarrier(THREADS);
+        CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(THREADS);
+
+        Runner[] runners = new Runner[THREADS];
+        for (int i = 0; i < THREADS; i++)
+        {
+            runners[i] = new Runner(barrier, latch);
+            Thread t = new Thread(runners[i]);
+            t.start();
+        }
+
+        try
+        {
+            latch.await();
+        }
+        catch (InterruptedException e)
+        {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+
+        long min = Integer.MAX_VALUE, max = 0;
+        for (Runner runner : runners)
+        {
+            long elapsed = runner.getElapsed();
+            min = Math.min(min, elapsed);
+            max = Math.max(max, elapsed);
+        }
+        long avg = min + ((max - min) / 2);
+        System.out.printf("min=%d, max=%d, avg=%d\n", min, max, avg);
+    }
+
+    private class Runner implements Runnable
+    {
+        private CyclicBarrier barrier;
+        private CountDownLatch latch;
+        private long start;
+        private long finish;
+
+        public Runner(CyclicBarrier barrier, CountDownLatch latch)
+        {
+            this.barrier = barrier;
+            this.latch = latch;
+        }
+
+        public void run()
+        {
+            try
+            {
+                barrier.await();
+                
+                start = System.currentTimeMillis();
+                for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
+                {
+                    Connection connection = ds.getConnection();
+                    for (int j = 0; j < 20; j++)
+                    {
+                        PreparedStatement statement = connection.prepareStatement("SELECT * FROM test WHERE foo=?");
+                        for (int k = 0; k < 30; k++)
+                        {
+                            statement.setInt(1, i);
+                            ResultSet resultSet = statement.executeQuery();
+                            resultSet.next();
+                            resultSet.close();
+                        }
+                        statement.close();
+                    }
+                    connection.close();
+                }
+            }
+            catch (Exception e)
+            {
+                e.printStackTrace();
+            }
+            finally
+            {
+                finish = System.currentTimeMillis();
+                latch.countDown();
+            }
+        }
+
+        public long getElapsed()
+        {
+            return finish - start;
+        }
+    }
+}