diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 7ce4f93..60e7f1c 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -14,3 +14,4 @@ docs/
 extradata/
 revdep/
 ^CRAN-SUBMISSION$
+bench/
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2eec536..1beb33f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ autom4te.cache
 src/Makevars
 revdep
 .Rprofile
+bench/