diff --git a/benches/boringssl/CMakeLists.txt b/benches/boringssl/CMakeLists.txt
index 0c1c4ff99..d6dfdbdcc 100644
--- a/benches/boringssl/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/benches/boringssl/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ project(BENCHMARKS CXX)
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 14)
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)
 
+set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Release)
+
 FetchContent_Declare(
   boringssl
   GIT_REPOSITORY https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl
diff --git a/src/kem/kyber768/PERFORMANCE.md b/src/kem/kyber768/PERFORMANCE.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..93bf98dd9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/kem/kyber768/PERFORMANCE.md
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+N.B.: All measurements were taken on an M1 MacBook Air with 16 GB of memory.
+
+|           |   Key Generation (µs) |   Encapsulation (µs) |   Decapsulation (µs) |
+|:----------|----------------------:|---------------------:|---------------------:|
+| libcrux   |               30.671  |              36.31   |              36.3    |
+| BoringSSL |               33.8152 |              28.7323 |              35.2664 |
+| CIRCL     |               39.785  |              44.517  |              49.626  |
+| PQClean   |               30.671  |              38.511  |              43.458  |
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