diff --git a/brick.cabal b/brick.cabal
index 216c89b..8390083 100644
--- a/brick.cabal
+++ b/brick.cabal
@@ -75,33 +75,6 @@ executable brick
                        lens,
                        text
 
-Flag bench
-  Description: whether to build benchmarks
-  Default: False
-
-executable brick-bench
-  hs-source-dirs:      programs,src
-
-  if !flag(bench)
-    buildable:         False
-
-  ghc-options:         -threaded -Wall -fno-warn-unused-do-bind -O3
-  default-language:    Haskell2010
-  main-is:             Bench.hs
-  CPP-Options:         -DBENCH
-  build-depends:       base <= 5,
-                       transformers,
-                       vty >= 5.2.9,
-                       data-default,
-                       lens,
-                       text,
-                       criterion,
-                       deepseq,
-                       contravariant,
-                       template-haskell,
-                       containers,
-                       vector
-
 executable brick-viewport-scroll-demo
   hs-source-dirs:      programs
   ghc-options:         -threaded -Wall -fno-warn-unused-do-bind -O3
diff --git a/programs/Bench.hs b/programs/Bench.hs
deleted file mode 100644
index 093b13c..0000000
--- a/programs/Bench.hs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-{-# OPTIONS_GHC -fno-warn-orphans #-}
-module Main where
-
-import Criterion.Main
-import Control.DeepSeq (NFData(..))
-import Data.Monoid
-import Data.Default
-import Graphics.Vty
-import qualified Data.Text as T
-
-import Brick.AttrMap
-import Brick.Widgets.Core
-import Brick.Widgets.Border
-import Brick.Widgets.Center
-
-instance NFData Widget where
-    rnf w = (hSize w) `seq` (vSize w) `seq` (render w) `seq` ()
-
-aMap :: AttrMap
-aMap = attrMap def []
-
-sz :: DisplayRegion
-sz = (100, 100)
-
-renderBench :: Widget -> Picture
-renderBench w = pic
-    where
-        (_, pic, _) = renderFinal aMap [w] sz (const Nothing) (RS mempty mempty)
-
-mkBench :: String -> Widget -> Benchmark
-mkBench s w = bench s (nf renderBench w)
-
-allGroups :: [Benchmark]
-allGroups =
-    [ bgroup "widgets"
-        [ mkBench "str"                 (str "testing")
-        , mkBench "txt"                 (txt $ T.pack "testing")
-        , mkBench "hBorder"             hBorder
-        , mkBench "hBorderWithLabel"    (hBorderWithLabel (str "label"))
-        , mkBench "vBorder"             vBorder
-        , mkBench "border"              (border $ str "testing")
-        , mkBench "fill"                (fill ' ')
-        , mkBench "hBoxFixed"           (hBox [str "testing", str "testing"])
-        , mkBench "vBoxFixed"           (vBox [str "testing", str "testing"])
-        , mkBench "hBoxUnlimited"       (hBox [fill ' ', str "testing"])
-        , mkBench "vBoxUnlimited"       (vBox [fill ' ', str "testing"])
-        , mkBench "empty"               emptyWidget
-        , mkBench "hLimit"              (hLimit 1 $ str "t")
-        , mkBench "vLimit"              (vLimit 1 $ str "testing")
-        , mkBench "hCenter"             (vBox $ take 1000 $ repeat $ hCenter $ str "testing")
-
-        -- withDefaultAttr
-        -- withDefaultAttrName
-        -- withAttrName
-        -- withAttrMappings
-        -- forceAttr
-        -- raw
-        -- withBorderStyle
-        -- translateBy
-        -- cropLeftBy
-        -- cropRightBy
-        -- cropTopBy
-        -- cropBottomBy
-        -- showCursor
-        -- viewport
-        -- visible
-        -- visibleRegion
-        ]
-    ]
-
-main :: IO ()
-main = defaultMain allGroups
diff --git a/src/Brick/Widgets/Core.hs b/src/Brick/Widgets/Core.hs
index 1ba4b54..16d7b53 100644
--- a/src/Brick/Widgets/Core.hs
+++ b/src/Brick/Widgets/Core.hs
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-{-# LANGUAGE CPP #-}
 -- | This module provides the core widget combinators and rendering
 -- routines. Everything this library does is in terms of these basic
 -- primitives.
@@ -83,11 +82,6 @@ module Brick.Widgets.Core
 
   -- * Misc
   , Direction(..)
-
-#ifdef BENCH
-  , renderFinal
-  , RenderState(..)
-#endif
   )
 where