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+package model
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// BenchmarkVocabulary is a reusable test vocabulary for benchmarks
+var BenchmarkVocabulary = &Vocabulary{
+	Values: []string{
+		"Hello",
+		"World",
+		"!",
+		"How",
+		"are",
+		"you",
+		"t",
+		"o",
+		"d",
+		"a",
+		"y",
+		"to",
+		"tod",
+		"toda",
+		"today",
+		" ",
+		"<s>",
+		"</s>",
+		"<pad>",
+		"'s",
+		"'t",
+		"'re",
+		"'ve",
+		"'m",
+		"'ll",
+		"'d",
+	},
+	Types: []uint32{1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1}, // 3 for special tokens
+	Merges: []string{
+		"to",
+		"tod",
+		"toda",
+		"today",
+	},
+	BOS: 16, // <s>
+	EOS: 17, // </s>
+}
+
+func BenchmarkBytePairEncoding(b *testing.B) {
+	bpe := BytePairEncoding{
+		Pretokenizer: `(?i:'s|'t|'re|'ve|'m|'ll|'d)|[^\r\n\p{L}\p{N}]?\p{L}+|\p{N}{1,3}| ?[^\s\p{L}\p{N}]+[\r\n]*|\s*[\r\n]+|\s+(?!\S)|\s+`,
+		Vocabulary:   BenchmarkVocabulary,
+	}
+
+	benchmarks := []struct {
+		name  string
+		input string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:  "simple_hello_world",
+			input: "Hello World!",
+		},
+		{
+			name:  "with_special_tokens",
+			input: "<s>Hello World!</s>",
+		},
+		{
+			name:  "with_merges",
+			input: "today is today and today",
+		},
+		{
+			name:  "with_contractions",
+			input: "I'm don't won't can't they're we've you'll he'd",
+		},
+		{
+			name:  "long_text",
+			input: "Hello World! How are you today? I'm doing great! This is a longer text to test the performance of the encoding and decoding process with multiple sentences and various tokens including special ones like <s> and </s> and contractions like don't and won't.",
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, bm := range benchmarks {
+		// Benchmark Encoding
+		b.Run("Encode_"+bm.name, func(b *testing.B) {
+			b.ReportAllocs()
+			for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+				tokens, err := bpe.Encode(bm.input)
+				if err != nil {
+					b.Fatal(err)
+				}
+				b.SetBytes(int64(len(tokens) * 4)) // Each token is 4 bytes (int32)
+			}
+		})
+
+		// First encode the input to get tokens for decode benchmark
+		tokens, err := bpe.Encode(bm.input)
+		if err != nil {
+			b.Fatal(err)
+		}
+
+		// Benchmark Decoding
+		b.Run("Decode_"+bm.name, func(b *testing.B) {
+			b.ReportAllocs()
+			for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+				decoded, err := bpe.Decode(tokens)
+				if err != nil {
+					b.Fatal(err)
+				}
+				b.SetBytes(int64(len(decoded)))
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func BenchmarkBytePairEncodingSplit(b *testing.B) {
+	bpe := BytePairEncoding{
+		Pretokenizer: `(?i:'s|'t|'re|'ve|'m|'ll|'d)|[^\r\n\p{L}\p{N}]?\p{L}+|\p{N}{1,3}| ?[^\s\p{L}\p{N}]+[\r\n]*|\s*[\r\n]+|\s+(?!\S)|\s+`,
+	}
+
+	benchmarks := []struct {
+		name  string
+		input string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:  "simple_text",
+			input: "Hello World!",
+		},
+		{
+			name:  "with_contractions",
+			input: "I'm don't won't",
+		},
+		{
+			name:  "with_numbers",
+			input: "In 2024 there are 365 days",
+		},
+		{
+			name:  "with_special_chars",
+			input: "Hello!! ...world",
+		},
+		{
+			name:  "with_spaces",
+			input: "Hello    World",
+		},
+		{
+			name:  "with_newlines",
+			input: "Hello\nWorld\nHow\nAre\nYou",
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, bm := range benchmarks {
+		b.Run("Split_"+bm.name, func(b *testing.B) {
+			b.ReportAllocs()
+			for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
+				splits, err := bpe.split(bm.input)
+				if err != nil {
+					b.Fatal(err)
+				}
+				b.SetBytes(int64(len(splits)))
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}