diff --git a/benchmarks/stdio_benchmark.cpp b/benchmarks/stdio_benchmark.cpp
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2014 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#include "benchmark.h"
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#define KB 1024
+#define MB 1024*KB
+
+#define AT_COMMON_SIZES \
+    Arg(1)->Arg(2)->Arg(3)->Arg(4)->Arg(8)->Arg(16)->Arg(32)->Arg(64)->Arg(512)-> \
+    Arg(1*KB)->Arg(4*KB)->Arg(8*KB)->Arg(16*KB)->Arg(64*KB)
+
+static void BM_stdio_fread(int iters, int chunk_size) {
+  StopBenchmarkTiming();
+  FILE* fp = fopen("/dev/zero", "rw");
+  char* buf = new char[chunk_size];
+  StartBenchmarkTiming();
+
+  for (int i = 0; i < iters; ++i) {
+    fread(buf, chunk_size, 1, fp);
+  }
+
+  StopBenchmarkTiming();
+  SetBenchmarkBytesProcessed(int64_t(iters) * int64_t(chunk_size));
+  delete[] buf;
+  fclose(fp);
+}
+BENCHMARK(BM_stdio_fread)->AT_COMMON_SIZES;
+
+
+static void BM_stdio_fwrite(int iters, int chunk_size) {
+  StopBenchmarkTiming();
+  FILE* fp = fopen("/dev/zero", "rw");
+  char* buf = new char[chunk_size];
+  StartBenchmarkTiming();
+
+  for (int i = 0; i < iters; ++i) {
+      fwrite(buf, chunk_size, 1, fp);
+  }
+
+  StopBenchmarkTiming();
+  SetBenchmarkBytesProcessed(int64_t(iters) * int64_t(chunk_size));
+  delete[] buf;
+  fclose(fp);
+}
+BENCHMARK(BM_stdio_fwrite)->AT_COMMON_SIZES;