diff --git a/apps/benchmark/LICENSE.md b/apps/benchmark/LICENSE.md
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+
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+All rights reserved.
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+ * Neither the name of Yii Software LLC nor the names of its
+   contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
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+
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diff --git a/apps/benchmark/README.md b/apps/benchmark/README.md
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+Yii 2 Benchmark Application
+===========================
+
+**NOTE** Yii 2 and the relevant applications and extensions are still under heavy
+development. We may make significant changes without prior notices. Please do not
+use them for production. Please consider using [Yii v1.1](https://github.com/yiisoft/yii)
+if you have a project to be deployed for production soon.
+
+
+Yii 2 Benchmark Application is an application built to demonstrate the minimal overhead
+introduced by the Yii framework. The application contains a single page which only renders
+the "hello world" string.
+
+The application attempts to simulate the scenario in which you can achieve the best performance
+when using Yii. It does so by assuming that both of the main application configuration and the page
+content are cached in memory, and the application enables pretty URLs.
+
+
+DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
+-------------------
+
+      protected/          contains application source code
+          controllers/    contains Web controller classes
+      index.php           the entry script
+
+
+REQUIREMENTS
+------------
+
+The minimum requirement by Yii is that your Web server supports PHP 5.3.?.
+
+
+INSTALLATION
+------------
+
+If you do not have [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/), you may download it from
+[http://getcomposer.org/](http://getcomposer.org/) or run the following command on Linux/Unix/MacOS:
+
+~~~
+curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
+~~~
+
+You can then install the Bootstrap Application using the following command:
+
+~~~
+php composer.phar create-project --stability=dev yiisoft/yii2-app-benchmark yii-benchmark
+~~~
+
+Now you should be able to access the benchmark page using the URL
+
+~~~
+http://localhost/yii-benchmark/index.php/site/hello
+~~~
+
+In the above, we assume `yii-benchmark` is directly under the document root of your Web server.
+
diff --git a/apps/benchmark/composer.json b/apps/benchmark/composer.json
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+{
+	"name": "yiisoft/yii2-app-benchmark",
+	"description": "Yii 2 Benchmark Application",
+	"keywords": ["yii", "framework", "benchmark", "application"],
+	"homepage": "http://www.yiiframework.com/",
+	"type": "project",
+	"license": "BSD-3-Clause",
+	"support": {
+		"issues": "https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/issues?state=open",
+		"forum": "http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/",
+		"wiki": "http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/",
+		"irc": "irc://irc.freenode.net/yii",
+		"source": "https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2"
+	},
+	"minimum-stability": "dev",
+	"require": {
+		"php": ">=5.3.0",
+		"yiisoft/yii2": "dev-master"
+	}
+}
diff --git a/apps/benchmark/index.php b/apps/benchmark/index.php
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+<?php
+
+defined('YII_DEBUG') or define('YII_DEBUG', false);
+
+require(__DIR__ . '/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/yii/Yii.php');
+
+$config = array(
+	'id' => 'benchmark',
+	'basePath' => __DIR__ . '/protected',
+	'components' => array(
+		'urlManager' => array(
+			'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
+		),
+	)
+);
+
+$application = new yii\web\Application($config);
+$application->run();
diff --git a/apps/benchmark/protected/controllers/SiteController.php b/apps/benchmark/protected/controllers/SiteController.php
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+<?php
+
+use yii\web\Controller;
+
+class SiteController extends Controller
+{
+	public $defaultAction = 'hello';
+
+	public function actionHello()
+	{
+		echo 'hello world';
+	}
+}
diff --git a/apps/benchmark/protected/vendor/.gitignore b/apps/benchmark/protected/vendor/.gitignore
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+*
+!.gitignore
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