diff --git a/benchmark/run-tests-benchmark-baseline.py b/benchmark/run-tests-benchmark-baseline.py
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+#!/bin/python3
+
+import glob
+import subprocess
+import os
+import sys
+
+# will break if there are namespace collisions
+
+if os.path.isfile("a.out"):
+    raise FileExistsError # TODO: generate uuid .out
+
+file_list = glob.glob(f"{os.path.dirname(__file__)}/**/*.cases", recursive=True)
+file_only_list = [os.path.basename(os.path.splitext(x)[0]) for x in file_list]
+
+if sys.platform == "win32":
+    os.system("color") # enables ANSI escape characters, bug in Python
+
+exit_code = 0
+for file_name in glob.glob("*.c", recursive=False):
+    if file_name.rstrip(".c") in file_only_list:
+        should_continue = "y" if os.getenv("DEBIAN_FRONTEND") == "noninteractive" else input(f"{file_name}; run (y/N)? ").lower()
+        if should_continue != "y":
+            continue
+        subprocess.run(["gcc", "-o", "a.out", "-std=c11", "-Wall", "-g", file_name], check=True)
+        with open(next(x for x in file_list if os.path.splitext(file_name)[0] in x)) as f:
+            to_run = f.read().split("\n\n")
+            total_tests, passed_tests = 0, 0
+            for x in to_run:
+                x_split = x.rsplit("\n", 1)
+                return_data = subprocess.run(["./a.out"], input=x_split[0].rstrip().encode(), capture_output=True).stdout.decode().rstrip()
+                test_passed_int = int(return_data == x_split[1].rstrip())
+                total_tests += 1
+                passed_tests += test_passed_int
+                print(f"({x_split[0]})", x_split[1], f"\u001b[{31 + test_passed_int}m{return_data}\u001b[0m")
+            print(f"\u001b[32m{passed_tests} tests passed\u001b[0m, \u001b[{31 - 31*int(total_tests == passed_tests)}m{total_tests - passed_tests} tests failed\u001b[0m")
+            exit_code += total_tests - passed_tests
+            os.remove("a.out")
+
+sys.exit(exit_code)
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