diff --git a/platforms/python/examples/simple-benchmark.py b/platforms/python/examples/simple-benchmark.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f97d527
--- /dev/null
+++ b/platforms/python/examples/simple-benchmark.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import wasm3
+import time, timeit
+
+# WebAssembly binary
+WASM = bytes.fromhex("""
+  00 61 73 6d 01 00 00 00 01 06 01 60 01 7e 01 7e
+  03 02 01 00 07 07 01 03 66 69 62 00 00 0a 1f 01
+  1d 00 20 00 42 02 54 04 40 20 00 0f 0b 20 00 42
+  02 7d 10 00 20 00 42 01 7d 10 00 7c 0f 0b
+""")
+
+def run_wasm():
+    env = wasm3.Environment()
+    rt  = env.new_runtime(4096)
+    mod = env.parse_module(WASM)
+    rt.load(mod)
+    wasm_fib = rt.find_function("fib")
+    assert wasm_fib.call_argv("24") == 46368
+
+def fib(n):
+    if n < 2:
+        return n
+    return fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
+
+def run_py():
+    assert fib(24) == 46368
+
+print("Wasm3:  ", timeit.timeit(run_wasm, number=1000))
+time.sleep(15)
+print("Python: ", timeit.timeit(run_py,   number=1000))
diff --git a/platforms/python/setup.py b/platforms/python/setup.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 208365a..e7ab7b5
--- a/platforms/python/setup.py
+++ b/platforms/python/setup.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
 from setuptools import setup
 from distutils.core import Extension
 from glob import glob