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+'use strict';
+
+require('../common');
+
+// Minimal test for assert benchmarks. This makes sure the benchmarks aren't
+// completely broken but nothing more than that.
+
+const runBenchmark = require('../common/benchmark');
+
+runBenchmark(
+  'assert', ['len=1', 'method=', 'n=1', 'prim=null', 'size=1', 'type=Int8Array']
+);