diff --git a/scalarvssimd/Makefile b/scalarvssimd/Makefile
index 739fa806..ea27af69 100644
--- a/scalarvssimd/Makefile
+++ b/scalarvssimd/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 HEADERS:=include/avxprocessing.h    include/benchmark.h        include/common_defs.h      include/jsonstruct.h       include/scalarprocessing.h include/util.h
-bench: benchmarks/bench.cpp $(HEADERS)
+bench: benchmarks/bench.cpp rapidjson/license.txt $(HEADERS)
 	$(CXX) -std=c++11 -O3 -o $@ benchmarks/bench.cpp -Irapidjson/include -Iinclude  -march=native -lm -Wall -Wextra
 
+rapidjson/license.txt:
+	git submodule foreach git pull origin master
+	
+
 clean:
 	rm -f bench
diff --git a/scalarvssimd/benchmarks/bench.cpp b/scalarvssimd/benchmarks/bench.cpp
index 02bc2286..fb12488a 100644
--- a/scalarvssimd/benchmarks/bench.cpp
+++ b/scalarvssimd/benchmarks/bench.cpp
@@ -1,107 +1,78 @@
-#include "jsonstruct.h"
-#include "rapidjson/reader.h" // you have to check in the submodule
-#include "rapidjson/document.h"
-#include "rapidjson/writer.h"
-#include "rapidjson/stringbuffer.h"
-#include "scalarprocessing.h"
 #include "avxprocessing.h"
 #include "benchmark.h"
+#include "jsonstruct.h"
+#include "rapidjson/document.h"
+#include "rapidjson/reader.h" // you have to check in the submodule
+#include "rapidjson/stringbuffer.h"
+#include "rapidjson/writer.h"
+#include "scalarprocessing.h"
 #include "util.h"
-#include <string>       // std::string
-#include <iostream>     // std::cout
-#include <sstream>      // std::stringstream
-
-//colorfuldisplay(ParsedJson & pj, const u8 * buf)
-//BEST_TIME_NOCHECK(dividearray32(array, N), , repeat,  N, timings,true);
 
+// colorfuldisplay(ParsedJson & pj, const u8 * buf)
 
 using namespace rapidjson;
 using namespace std;
 
-size_t bogus1 = 0;
-size_t bogus2 = 0;
-size_t bogus3 = 0;
+int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
+  if (argc < 2) {
+    cerr << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " <jsonfile>\n";
+    cerr << "Or " << argv[0] << " -v <jsonfile>\n";
+    exit(1);
+  }
+  bool verbose = false;
+  if (argc > 2) {
+    if (strcmp(argv[1], "-v"))
+      verbose = true;
+  }
+  pair<u8 *, size_t> p = get_corpus(argv[argc - 1]);
+  ParsedJson pj;
+  std::cout << "Input has ";
+  if (p.second > 1024 * 1024)
+    std::cout << p.second / (1024 * 1024) << " MB ";
+  else if (p.second > 1024)
+    std::cout << p.second / 1024 << " KB ";
+  else
+    std::cout << p.second << " B ";
+  std::cout << std::endl;
 
-struct MyHandler {
-    bool Null() { bogus1++; return true; }
-    bool Bool(bool b) { bogus2++; return true; }
-    bool Int(int i) { bogus3++; return true; }
-    bool Uint(unsigned u) { bogus2++; return true; }
-    bool Int64(int64_t i) { bogus2++; return true; }
-    bool Uint64(uint64_t u) { bogus2++; return true; }
-    bool Double(double d) { bogus2++; return true; }
-    bool RawNumber(const char* str, SizeType length, bool copy) {
-        bogus3++;
-        return true;
-    }
-    bool String(const char* str, SizeType length, bool copy) {
-        bogus2++;
-        return true;
-    }
-    bool StartObject() { bogus1++; return true; }
-    bool Key(const char* str, SizeType length, bool copy) {
-        bogus2++;
-        return true;
-    }
-    bool EndObject(SizeType memberCount) { bogus2++; return true; }
-    bool StartArray() { bogus2++; return true; }
-    bool EndArray(SizeType elementCount) { bogus1++; return true; }
-};
+  if (posix_memalign((void **)&pj.structurals, 8,
+                     ROUNDUP_N(p.second, 64) / 8)) {
+    throw "Allocation failed";
+  };
 
+  pj.n_structural_indexes = 0;
+  // we have potentially 1 structure per byte of input
+  // as well as a dummy structure and a root structure
+  // we also potentially write up to 7 iterations beyond
+  // in our 'cheesy flatten', so make some worst-case
+  // sapce for that too
+  u32 max_structures = ROUNDUP_N(p.second, 64) + 2 + 7;
+  pj.structural_indexes = new u32[max_structures];
+  pj.nodes = new JsonNode[max_structures];
+  if (verbose) {
+    std::cout << "Parsing SIMD (once) " << std::endl;
+    avx_json_parse(p.first, p.second, pj);
+    colorfuldisplay(pj, p.first);
+    debugdisplay(pj, p.first);
+    std::cout << "Parsing scalar (once) " << std::endl;
+    scalar_json_parse(p.first, p.second, pj);
+    colorfuldisplay(pj, p.first);
+    debugdisplay(pj, p.first);
+  }
 
-int main(int argc, char * argv[]) {
-    if (argc < 2) {
-        cerr << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " <jsonfile>\n";
-        cerr << "Or " << argv[0] << " -v <jsonfile>\n";
-        exit(1);
-    }
-    bool verbose = false;
-    if (argc > 2) {
-      if(strcmp(argv[1],"-v")) verbose = true;
-    }
-    pair<u8 *, size_t> p = get_corpus(argv[argc - 1]);
-    ParsedJson pj;
-    std::cout << "Input has ";
-    if(p.second > 1024 * 1024)
-      std::cout << p.second / (1024*1024) << " MB ";
-    else if (p.second > 1024)
-      std::cout << p.second / 1024 << " KB ";
-    else
-      std::cout << p.second << " B ";
-    std::cout << std::endl;
+  int repeat = 10;
+  int volume = p.second;
+  BEST_TIME_NOCHECK(avx_json_parse(p.first, p.second, pj), , repeat, volume,
+                    true);
+  BEST_TIME_NOCHECK(scalar_json_parse(p.first, p.second, pj), , repeat, volume,
+                    true);
 
-    if (posix_memalign( (void **)&pj.structurals, 8, ROUNDUP_N(p.second, 64)/8)) {
-        throw "Allocation failed";
-    };
-
-    pj.n_structural_indexes = 0;
-    // we have potentially 1 structure per byte of input
-    // as well as a dummy structure and a root structure
-    // we also potentially write up to 7 iterations beyond
-    // in our 'cheesy flatten', so make some worst-case
-    // sapce for that too
-    u32 max_structures = ROUNDUP_N(p.second, 64) + 2 + 7;
-    pj.structural_indexes = new u32[max_structures];
-    pj.nodes = new JsonNode[max_structures];
-    if(verbose) {
-      std::cout << "Parsing SIMD (once) " << std::endl;
-      avx_json_parse(p.first,  p.second, pj);
-      colorfuldisplay(pj, p.first);
-      debugdisplay(pj,p.first);
-      std::cout << "Parsing scalar (once) " << std::endl;
-      scalar_json_parse(p.first,  p.second, pj);
-      colorfuldisplay(pj, p.first);
-      debugdisplay(pj,p.first);
-    }
-
-    int repeat = 10;
-    int volume = p.second;
-    BEST_TIME_NOCHECK(avx_json_parse(p.first,  p.second, pj), , repeat, volume, true);
-    BEST_TIME_NOCHECK(scalar_json_parse(p.first,  p.second, pj), , repeat, volume, true);
-
-        rapidjson::Document d;
-        char buffer[p.second+1024];
-        memcpy(buffer, p.first, p.second);
-        buffer[p.second]='\0';
-    BEST_TIME(d.Parse((const char *)p.first).HasParseError(), false, memcpy(buffer, p.first, p.second) , repeat, volume, true);
+  rapidjson::Document d;
+  char buffer[p.second + 1024];
+  memcpy(buffer, p.first, p.second);
+  buffer[p.second] = '\0';
+  BEST_TIME(d.Parse((const char *)buffer).HasParseError(), false,
+            memcpy(buffer, p.first, p.second), repeat, volume, true);
+  BEST_TIME(d.ParseInsitu(buffer).HasParseError(), false,
+            memcpy(buffer, p.first, p.second), repeat, volume, true);
 }
diff --git a/scalarvssimd/include/benchmark.h b/scalarvssimd/include/benchmark.h
index f503e221..3dbbf7a7 100644
--- a/scalarvssimd/include/benchmark.h
+++ b/scalarvssimd/include/benchmark.h
@@ -104,8 +104,11 @@ uint64_t global_rdtsc_overhead = (uint64_t)UINT64_MAX;
     }                                                                          \
     uint64_t S = size;                                                         \
     float cycle_per_op = (min_diff) / (double)S;                               \
+    float avg_cycle_per_op = (sum_diff) / ((double)S * repeat);                \
     if (verbose)                                                               \
-      printf(" %.3f %s per operation (best) ", cycle_per_op, unitname);        \
+      printf(" %.3f %s per input byte (best) ", cycle_per_op, unitname);        \
+    if (verbose)                                                               \
+      printf(" %.3f %s per input byte (avg) ", avg_cycle_per_op, unitname);        \
     if (verbose)                                                               \
       printf("\n");                                                            \
     if (!verbose)                                                              \