diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 5c108955..5eefb02c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ jobs:
     timeout-minutes: 15
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        image: ["swift:6.0", "swift:6.1"]
+        image: ["swift:6.0", "swift:6.1", "swiftlang/swift:nightly-main-jammy"]
     container:
       image: ${{ matrix.image }}
     services:
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ jobs:
           - 6379:6379
         options: --entrypoint valkey-server
     steps:
+      - name: Install jemalloc
+        run: |
+          apt-get update
+          apt-get install -y libjemalloc-dev
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Test
diff --git a/Benchmarks/ValkeyBenchmarks/ValkeyBenchmarks.swift b/Benchmarks/ValkeyBenchmarks/ValkeyBenchmarks.swift
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2a2f2830
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Benchmarks/ValkeyBenchmarks/ValkeyBenchmarks.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+//
+// This source file is part of the swift-valkey open source project
+//
+// Copyright (c) 2025 Apple Inc. and the swift-valkey project authors
+// Licensed under Apache License v2.0
+//
+// See LICENSE.txt for license information
+// See CONTRIBUTORS.txt for the list of swift-valkey project authors
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+import Benchmark
+import Logging
+import NIOCore
+import NIOPosix
+import Valkey
+
+let benchmarks : @Sendable () -> Void = {
+    let defaultMetrics: [BenchmarkMetric] = [
+        .wallClock,
+        .cpuTotal,
+        .mallocCountTotal,
+        .throughput,
+        .instructions,
+    ]
+
+    var server: Channel?
+    Benchmark("GET benchmark", configuration: .init(metrics: defaultMetrics, scalingFactor: .kilo)) { benchmark in
+        let port = server!.localAddress!.port!
+        let logger = Logger(label: "test")
+        let client = ValkeyClient(.hostname("127.0.0.1", port: port), logger: logger)
+
+        try await client.withConnection(logger: logger) { connection in
+            benchmark.startMeasurement()
+
+            for _ in benchmark.scaledIterations {
+                let foo = try await connection.get(key: "foo")
+                precondition(foo == "Bar")
+            }
+
+            benchmark.stopMeasurement()
+        }
+    } setup: {
+        server = try await ServerBootstrap(group: NIOSingletons.posixEventLoopGroup)
+            .childChannelInitializer { channel in
+                do {
+                    try channel.pipeline.syncOperations.addHandler(ValkeyServerChannelHandler())
+                    return channel.eventLoop.makeSucceededVoidFuture()
+                } catch {
+                    return channel.eventLoop.makeFailedFuture(error)
+                }
+            }
+            .bind(host: "127.0.0.1", port: 0)
+            .get()
+    } teardown: {
+        try await server?.close().get()
+    }
+}
+
+final class ValkeyServerChannelHandler: ChannelInboundHandler {
+    typealias InboundIn = ByteBuffer
+    typealias OutboundOut = ByteBuffer
+
+    private var decoder = NIOSingleStepByteToMessageProcessor(RESPTokenDecoder())
+    private let response = ByteBuffer(string: "$3\r\nBar\r\n")
+
+    func channelRead(context: ChannelHandlerContext, data: NIOAny) {
+        try! self.decoder.process(buffer: self.unwrapInboundIn(data)) { token in
+            self.handleToken(context: context, token: token)
+        }
+    }
+
+    func handleToken(context: ChannelHandlerContext, token: RESPToken) {
+        guard case .array(let array) = token.value else {
+            fatalError()
+        }
+
+        var iterator = array.makeIterator()
+        switch iterator.next()?.value {
+        case .bulkString(ByteBuffer(string: "HELLO")):
+            let map = "%1\r\n+server\r\n+fake\r\n"
+            context.writeAndFlush(self.wrapOutboundOut(ByteBuffer(string: map)), promise: nil)
+
+        case .bulkString(ByteBuffer(string: "GET")):
+            context.writeAndFlush(self.wrapOutboundOut(self.response), promise: nil)
+
+        default:
+            fatalError()
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/Package.swift b/Package.swift
index 575d3cdc..370798e0 100644
--- a/Package.swift
+++ b/Package.swift
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ let package = Package(
         .package(url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-nio.git", from: "2.79.0"),
         .package(url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-ssl.git", from: "2.29.0"),
         .package(url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-transport-services.git", from: "1.23.0"),
+
+        .package(url: "https://github.com/ordo-one/package-benchmark", from: "1.29.2"),
     ],
     targets: [
         .target(
@@ -32,6 +34,20 @@ let package = Package(
             name: "ValkeyCommandsBuilder",
             resources: [.process("Resources")]
         ),
+        .executableTarget(
+            name: "ValkeyBenchmarks",
+            dependencies: [
+                "Valkey",
+                .product(name: "Benchmark", package: "package-benchmark"),
+                .product(name: "Logging", package: "swift-log"),
+                .product(name: "NIOCore", package: "swift-nio"),
+                .product(name: "NIOPosix", package: "swift-nio"),
+            ],
+            path: "Benchmarks/ValkeyBenchmarks",
+            plugins: [
+                .plugin(name: "BenchmarkPlugin", package: "package-benchmark"),
+            ]
+        ),
         .testTarget(
             name: "IntegrationTests",
             dependencies: ["Valkey"]
diff --git a/Sources/Valkey/ValkeyClient.swift b/Sources/Valkey/ValkeyClient.swift
index c812d3f9..1b92fb1c 100644
--- a/Sources/Valkey/ValkeyClient.swift
+++ b/Sources/Valkey/ValkeyClient.swift
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ extension ValkeyClient {
     ///   - operation: Closure handling Valkey connection
     public func withConnection<Value: Sendable>(
         logger: Logger,
-        operation: @escaping @Sendable (ValkeyConnection) async throws -> Value
+        operation: (ValkeyConnection) async throws -> Value
     ) async throws -> Value {
         let valkeyConnection = try await ValkeyConnection.connect(
             address: self.serverAddress,