diff --git a/tests/bench/bytealloc-1-bytes_n.py b/tests/bench/bytealloc-1-bytes_n.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4a4bbc6fae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/bench/bytealloc-1-bytes_n.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import bench
+
+def test(num):
+    for i in iter(range(num // 1000)):
+        bytes(10000)
+
+bench.run(test)
diff --git a/tests/bench/bytealloc-2-repeat.py b/tests/bench/bytealloc-2-repeat.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..786a804622
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/bench/bytealloc-2-repeat.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import bench
+
+def test(num):
+    for i in iter(range(num // 1000)):
+        b"\0" * 10000
+
+bench.run(test)