diff --git a/benchmark/Concurrent.hs b/benchmark/Concurrent.hs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b6f5e1cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmark/Concurrent.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+{-# LANGUAGE RankNTypes #-}
+-- |
+-- Module      : Main
+-- Copyright   : (c) 2018 Harendra Kumar
+--
+-- License     : BSD3
+-- Maintainer  : harendra.kumar@gmail.com
+
+import Control.Concurrent
+import Control.Monad (when)
+-- import Data.IORef
+
+import Gauge
+import Streamly
+import qualified Streamly.Prelude as S
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- Append
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+-- Single work item yielded per thread
+{-# INLINE append #-}
+append :: IsStream t
+    => Int -> Int -> Int -> (t IO Int -> SerialT IO Int) -> IO ()
+append buflen tcount d t =
+    let work = (\i -> when (d /= 0) (threadDelay d) >> return i)
+    in S.drain
+        $ t
+        $ maxBuffer buflen
+        $ maxThreads (-1)
+        $ S.fromFoldableM $ map work [1..tcount]
+
+-- Big stream of items yielded per thread
+{-# INLINE concated #-}
+concated :: Int -> Int -> Int -> Int -> (forall a. SerialT IO a -> SerialT IO a -> SerialT IO a) -> IO ()
+concated buflen threads d elems t =
+    let work = (\i -> (S.replicateM i ((when (d /= 0) (threadDelay d)) >> return i)))
+    in S.drain
+        $ adapt
+        $ maxThreads (-1)
+        $ maxBuffer buflen
+        $ S.concatMapBy t work
+        $ S.replicate threads elems
+
+appendGroup :: Int -> Int -> Int -> [Benchmark]
+appendGroup buflen threads delay =
+    [ -- bench "serial"   $ nfIO $ append buflen threads delay serially
+      bench "ahead"    $ nfIO $ append buflen threads delay aheadly
+    , bench "async"    $ nfIO $ append buflen threads delay asyncly
+    , bench "wAsync"   $ nfIO $ append buflen threads delay wAsyncly
+    , bench "parallel" $ nfIO $ append buflen threads delay parallely
+    ]
+
+concatGroup :: Int -> Int -> Int -> Int -> [Benchmark]
+concatGroup buflen threads delay n =
+    [ bench "serial"   $ nfIO $ concated buflen threads delay n serial
+    , bench "ahead"    $ nfIO $ concated buflen threads delay n ahead
+    , bench "async"    $ nfIO $ concated buflen threads delay n async
+    , bench "wAsync"   $ nfIO $ concated buflen threads delay n wAsync
+    , bench "parallel" $ nfIO $ concated buflen threads delay n parallel
+    ]
+
+main :: IO ()
+main = do
+  defaultMain
+    [ -- bgroup "append/buf-1-threads-10k-0sec"  (appendGroup 1 10000 0)
+    -- , bgroup "append/buf-100-threads-100k-0sec"  (appendGroup 100 100000 0)
+      bgroup "append/buf-10k-threads-10k-5sec"  (appendGroup 10000 10000 5000000)
+    --  bgroup "concat/buf-1-threads-100k-count-1" (concatGroup 1 100000 0 1)
+    --  bgroup "concat/buf-1-threads-1-count-10m" (concatGroup 1 1 0 10000000)
+     , bgroup "concat/buf-100-threads-100-count-500k"  (concatGroup 100 100 0 500000)
+    {-
+    , bgroup "forkIO-5000ms-10k" $
+    let delay = threadDelay 5000000
+        count = 10000 :: Int
+        list = [1..count]
+        work i = delay >> return i
+    in
+    [ bench "discard" $ nfIO $ do
+        mapM_ (\i -> forkIO $ work i >> return ()) list
+        threadDelay 6000000
+    , bench "collect" $ nfIO $ do
+        ref <- newIORef []
+        mapM_ (\i -> forkIO $ work i >>=
+               \j -> atomicModifyIORef ref $ \xs -> (j : xs, ())) list
+        threadDelay 6000000
+    ]
+    -}
+   ]
diff --git a/streamly.cabal b/streamly.cabal
index 82cdd347..38df6df1 100644
--- a/streamly.cabal
+++ b/streamly.cabal
@@ -710,6 +710,39 @@ benchmark fileio
     , typed-process       >= 0.2.3 && < 0.3
     , deepseq             >= 1.4.1 && < 1.5
 
+benchmark concurrent
+  type: exitcode-stdio-1.0
+  hs-source-dirs: benchmark
+  main-is: Concurrent.hs
+  default-language: Haskell2010
+  ghc-options:  -O2 -Wall -fspec-constr-recursive=10 -with-rtsopts "-T"
+
+  if flag(has-llvm)
+    ghc-options: -fllvm
+
+  if flag(dev)
+    cpp-options:    -DDEVBUILD
+    ghc-options:    -Wmissed-specialisations
+                    -Wall-missed-specialisations
+                    -fno-ignore-asserts
+  if impl(ghc >= 8.0)
+    ghc-options:    -Wcompat
+                    -Wunrecognised-warning-flags
+                    -Widentities
+                    -Wincomplete-record-updates
+                    -Wincomplete-uni-patterns
+                    -Wredundant-constraints
+                    -Wnoncanonical-monad-instances
+                    -Wnoncanonical-monadfail-instances
+  if flag(dev)
+    buildable: True
+    build-depends:
+        streamly
+      , base                >= 4.8   && < 5
+      , gauge               >= 0.2.4 && < 0.3
+  else
+    buildable: False
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 -- Internal benchmarks for unexposed modules
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------