diff --git a/.github/workflows/benchmark.yaml b/.github/workflows/benchmark.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6469530
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/benchmark.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+name: Benchmark
+
+on:
+    pull_request:
+        branches:
+            - main
+    push:
+        branches:
+            - main
+    schedule:
+        # every 12 hours
+        - cron: '0 */12 * * *'
+
+jobs:
+    corpus:
+        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+        steps:
+            - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+            - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+              with:
+                  go-version: "1.26.6"
+
+            - name: Clone + install Laravel corpus
+              run: |
+                  git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/laravel/framework laravel
+                  composer install --no-interaction --no-progress --ignore-platform-reqs --working-dir=laravel
+                  # drop intentionally-broken PHP fixtures
+                  rm -rf laravel/tests
+                  find laravel/vendor -depth -type d -name tests -exec rm -rf {} +
+
+            - run: go build -o benchmark-corpus ./benchmark
+
+            - name: Run benchmark (timed + memory)
+              run: |
+                  # average wall-clock over 5 runs
+                  bench() {
+                    total=0
+                    for i in $(seq 1 5); do
+                      start=$(date +%s%3N)
+                      "$@" > /dev/null
+                      end=$(date +%s%3N)
+                      total=$((total + end - start))
+                    done
+                    echo $((total / 5))
+                  }
+                  # peak resident set size (MB) of a single run
+                  mem() {
+                    /usr/bin/time -v "$@" 2>mem.log > /dev/null
+                    awk '/Maximum resident set size/{printf "%d", $NF/1024}' mem.log
+                  }
+                  ms=$(bench ./benchmark-corpus laravel)
+                  mb=$(mem ./benchmark-corpus laravel)
+                  files=$(./benchmark-corpus laravel | awk '{print $2}')
+                  {
+                    echo "## Corpus benchmark"
+                    echo ""
+                    echo "Parsing the full Laravel framework (\`src/\` + Composer \`vendor/\`), average wall-clock over 5 runs."
+                    echo ""
+                    echo "| Files | Avg (5 runs) | Peak mem |"
+                    echo "|------:|-------------:|---------:|"
+                    echo "| $files | $ms ms | $mb MB |"
+                  } | tee -a "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6bcac03..10cac47 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 .idea
 **/*.test
 
+/laravel/
+/benchmark-corpus
+
 cpu.pprof
 mem.pprof
 trace.out
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 148bba1..ee29944 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ bench:
 	go test -benchmem -bench=. ./internal/php5
 	go test -benchmem -bench=. ./internal/php7
 
+# wall-clock parse of a corpus, e.g. `make bench-corpus DIR=./laravel`
+bench-corpus:
+	go run ./benchmark $(DIR)
+
 compile: ./internal/php5/php5.go ./internal/php7/php7.go ./internal/php8/php8.go ./internal/php8/scanner.go ./internal/scanner/scanner.go
 	sed -i '' -e 's/yyErrorVerbose = false/yyErrorVerbose = true/g' ./internal/php5/php5.go
 	sed -i '' -e 's/yyErrorVerbose = false/yyErrorVerbose = true/g' ./internal/php7/php7.go
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9bbaa7e..77e2ae2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -44,6 +44,17 @@ func main() {
 - `pkg/visitor` — traverser, printer, dumper, namespace and class resolvers, formatter.
 - `pkg/token`, `pkg/position`, `pkg/version`, `pkg/errors`, `pkg/conf`.
 
+## Benchmark
+
+`benchmark/` parses every `.php` file under a directory and reports the wall-clock time. Point it at any corpus:
+
+```bash
+make bench-corpus DIR=./laravel
+# parsed 2966 files in 1215 ms
+```
+
+CI runs it against a full Laravel framework checkout (`src/` + Composer `vendor/`) on every push and every 12 hours, reporting the average over 5 runs and peak memory in the run's **Summary**.
+
 ## Generated code
 
 `internal/*/php*.go` and `internal/*/scanner.go` are generated. Edit the grammar source instead:
diff --git a/benchmark/main.go b/benchmark/main.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..304ecf1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmark/main.go
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+// Corpus benchmark: parse every .php file under the given path and report timing.
+// Parsing runs across GOMAXPROCS workers with the GC disabled for the short-lived run.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"io/fs"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"runtime"
+	"runtime/debug"
+	"sync"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/rectorphp/php-parser-in-go/pkg/conf"
+	"github.com/rectorphp/php-parser-in-go/pkg/parser"
+	"github.com/rectorphp/php-parser-in-go/pkg/version"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	root := "."
+	if len(os.Args) > 1 {
+		root = os.Args[1]
+	}
+
+	phpVersion, err := version.New("8.3")
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+	config := conf.Config{Version: phpVersion}
+
+	// short-lived process: parse throughput matters, not steady-state memory
+	debug.SetGCPercent(-1)
+
+	files := collectPHPFiles(root)
+
+	start := time.Now()
+	parsed := parseAll(files, config)
+	elapsed := time.Since(start)
+
+	fmt.Printf("parsed %d files in %d ms\n", parsed, elapsed.Milliseconds())
+}
+
+// parseAll parses every file across GOMAXPROCS workers and returns the count parsed.
+func parseAll(files []string, config conf.Config) int64 {
+	jobs := make(chan string, runtime.GOMAXPROCS(0))
+	var parsed int64
+
+	var wg sync.WaitGroup
+	for range runtime.GOMAXPROCS(0) {
+		wg.Go(func() {
+			for path := range jobs {
+				content, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+				if err != nil {
+					continue
+				}
+				// broken fixtures return an error; the parse work is what we time
+				parser.Parse(content, config)
+				atomic.AddInt64(&parsed, 1)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+
+	for _, path := range files {
+		jobs <- path
+	}
+	close(jobs)
+	wg.Wait()
+
+	return parsed
+}
+
+func collectPHPFiles(root string) []string {
+	var files []string
+	filepath.WalkDir(root, func(path string, d fs.DirEntry, err error) error {
+		if err == nil && !d.IsDir() && filepath.Ext(path) == ".php" {
+			files = append(files, path)
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+	return files
+}