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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+import cProfile
+import gptc
+import json
+import sys
+
+max_ngram_length = 10
+
+with open("models/raw.json") as f:
+    raw_model = json.load(f)
+
+with open("models/benchmark_text.txt") as f:
+    text = f.read()
+
+cProfile.run("gptc.compile(raw_model, max_ngram_length)")