diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index a0cf1af..50eb257 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
-[submodule "third_party/googletest"]
-	path = third_party/googletest
-	url = https://github.com/google/googletest.git
 [submodule "third_party/abseil-cpp"]
 	path = third_party/abseil-cpp
 	url = https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp.git
+[submodule "third_party/benchmark"]
+	path = third_party/benchmark
+	url = https://github.com/google/benchmark.git
+[submodule "third_party/googletest"]
+	path = third_party/googletest
+	url = https://github.com/google/googletest.git
 [submodule "third_party/md5sum"]
 	path = third_party/md5sum
 	url = https://github.com/dnomd343/md5sum.git
diff --git a/third_party/benchmark b/third_party/benchmark
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..3441176
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/benchmark
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 344117638c8ff7e239044fd0fa7085839fc03021