diff --git a/libsharp/libsharp.dox b/libsharp/libsharp.dox
index c0c1a59..4c441f1 100644
--- a/libsharp/libsharp.dox
+++ b/libsharp/libsharp.dox
@@ -82,12 +82,4 @@
   single-precision transforms will most likely not be faster than their
   double-precision counterparts, but they will require significantly less
   memory.
-
-  Two example and benchmark programs are distributed with libsharp:
-  <ul>
-  <li>sharp_test.c checks the accuracy of the (iterative) map analysis
-      algorithm</li>
-  <li>sharp_bench.c determines the quickest transform strategy for a given
-      SHT</li>
-  </ul>
 */
diff --git a/libsharp/sharp_bench.c b/libsharp/sharp_bench.c
deleted file mode 100644
index e7f8f23..0000000
--- a/libsharp/sharp_bench.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,149 +0,0 @@
-/*
- *  This file is part of libsharp.
- *
- *  libsharp is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- *  (at your option) any later version.
- *
- *  libsharp is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- *  GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- *  along with libsharp; if not, write to the Free Software
- *  Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
- */
-
-/*
- *  libsharp is being developed at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik
- *  and financially supported by the Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt
- *  (DLR).
- */
-
-/*! \file sharp_bench.c
-    Copyright (C) 2012 Max-Planck-Society
-    \author Martin Reinecke
-*/
-
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <string.h>
-#ifdef USE_MPI
-#include "mpi.h"
-#endif
-#include "sharp.h"
-#include "sharp_geomhelpers.h"
-#include "sharp_almhelpers.h"
-#include "c_utils.h"
-#include "sharp_announce.h"
-#include "sharp_core.h"
-
-typedef complex double dcmplx;
-
-static void bench_sht (int spin, int nv, sharp_jobtype type,
-  int ntrans, double *time, unsigned long long *opcnt)
-  {
-  int lmax=2047;
-  int mmax=128;
-  int nrings=512;
-  int ppring=1024;
-  ptrdiff_t npix=(ptrdiff_t)nrings*ppring;
-  sharp_geom_info *tinfo;
-  sharp_make_gauss_geom_info (nrings, ppring, 0., 1, ppring, &tinfo);
-
-  ptrdiff_t nalms = ((mmax+1)*(mmax+2))/2 + (mmax+1)*(lmax-mmax);
-  int ncomp = ntrans*((spin==0) ? 1 : 2);
-
-  double **map;
-  ALLOC2D(map,double,ncomp,npix);
-  SET_ARRAY(map[0],0,npix*ncomp,0.);
-
-  sharp_alm_info *alms;
-  sharp_make_triangular_alm_info(lmax,mmax,1,&alms);
-
-  dcmplx **alm;
-  ALLOC2D(alm,dcmplx,ncomp,nalms);
-  SET_ARRAY(alm[0],0,nalms*ncomp,0.);
-
-  int nruns=0;
-  *time=1e30;
-  *opcnt=1000000000000000;
-  do
-    {
-    double jtime;
-    unsigned long long jopcnt;
-    sharp_execute(type,spin,&alm[0],&map[0],tinfo,alms,ntrans,SHARP_DP|nv,
-      &jtime,&jopcnt);
-
-    if (jopcnt<*opcnt) *opcnt=jopcnt;
-    if (jtime<*time) *time=jtime;
-    }
-  while (++nruns < 4);
-
-  DEALLOC2D(map);
-  DEALLOC2D(alm);
-
-  sharp_destroy_alm_info(alms);
-  sharp_destroy_geom_info(tinfo);
-  }
-
-int main(void)
-  {
-#ifdef USE_MPI
-  MPI_Init(NULL,NULL);
-#endif
-  sharp_module_startup("sharp_bench",1,1,"",1);
-
-  printf("Benchmarking SHTs.\n\n");
-  FILE *fp=fopen("sharp_oracle.inc","w");
-  UTIL_ASSERT(fp, "failed to open oracle file for writing");
-  fprintf(fp,"static const int maxtr = 6;\n");
-  fprintf(fp,"static const int nv_opt[6][2][3] = {\n");
-
-  const char *shtname[]={"map2alm","alm2map","a2mder1"};
-
-  for (int ntr=1; ntr<=6; ++ntr)
-    {
-    fprintf(fp,"{");
-    for (int spin=0; spin<=2; spin+=2)
-      {
-      fprintf(fp,"{");
-      for (sharp_jobtype type=SHARP_MAP2ALM; type<=SHARP_ALM2MAP_DERIV1; ++type)
-        {
-        if ((type==SHARP_ALM2MAP_DERIV1) && (spin==0))
-          fprintf(fp,"-1");
-        else
-          {
-          int nvbest=-1, nvoracle=sharp_nv_oracle(type,spin,ntr);
-          unsigned long long opmin=1000000000000000, op;
-          double tmin=1e30;
-          double *time=RALLOC(double,sharp_get_nv_max()+1);
-          for (int nv=1; nv<=sharp_get_nv_max(); ++nv)
-            {
-            bench_sht (spin,nv,type,ntr,&time[nv],&op);
-            if (op<opmin) opmin=op;
-            if (time[nv]<tmin)
-              { tmin=time[nv]; nvbest=nv; }
-            }
-          printf("nt: %d  %s  spin: %d   nv: %d   time: %6.3f   perf: %6.3f"
-            "   dev[%d]: %6.2f%%\n",ntr,shtname[type],
-            spin,nvbest,tmin,opmin/tmin*1e-9,nvoracle,
-            (time[nvoracle]-tmin)/tmin*100.);
-          DEALLOC(time);
-          fprintf(fp,"%d",nvbest);
-          }
-        if (type!=SHARP_ALM2MAP_DERIV1) fprintf(fp,",");
-        }
-      fprintf(fp,(spin==0)?"},":"}");
-      printf("\n");
-      }
-    fprintf(fp,(ntr<6)?"},\n":"}\n");
-    }
-  fprintf(fp,"};\n");
-  fclose(fp);
-#ifdef USE_MPI
-  MPI_Finalize();
-#endif
-  return 0;
-  }
diff --git a/libsharp/sharp_bench2.c b/libsharp/sharp_bench2.c
deleted file mode 100644
index e669d29..0000000
--- a/libsharp/sharp_bench2.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,223 +0,0 @@
-/*
- *  This file is part of libsharp.
- *
- *  libsharp is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- *  (at your option) any later version.
- *
- *  libsharp is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- *  GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- *  along with libsharp; if not, write to the Free Software
- *  Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
- */
-
-/*
- *  libsharp is being developed at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik
- *  and financially supported by the Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt
- *  (DLR).
- */
-
-/*! \file sharp_bench2.c
-    Copyright (C) 2012 Max-Planck-Society
-    \author Martin Reinecke
-*/
-
-#include <stdio.h>
-
-#if (defined(_OPENMP) && defined(USE_MPI))
-
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <string.h>
-#include <omp.h>
-#include <mpi.h>
-#include "sharp_mpi.h"
-#include "sharp.h"
-#include "sharp_vecutil.h"
-#include "sharp_geomhelpers.h"
-#include "sharp_almhelpers.h"
-#include "c_utils.h"
-#include "sharp_announce.h"
-#include "sharp_core.h"
-#include "memusage.h"
-
-typedef complex double dcmplx;
-
-int ntasks, mytask;
-
-static unsigned long long totalops (unsigned long long val)
-  {
-  unsigned long long tmp;
-  MPI_Allreduce (&val, &tmp,1, MPI_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG, MPI_SUM, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
-  return tmp;
-  }
-
-static double maxTime (double val)
-  {
-  double tmp;
-  MPI_Allreduce (&val, &tmp,1, MPI_DOUBLE, MPI_MAX, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
-  return tmp;
-  }
-
-static double totalMem (double val)
-  {
-  double tmp;
-  MPI_Allreduce (&val, &tmp,1, MPI_DOUBLE, MPI_SUM, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
-  return tmp;
-  }
-
-static void reduce_alm_info(sharp_alm_info *ainfo)
-  {
-  int nmnew=0;
-  ptrdiff_t ofs = 0;
-  for (int i=mytask; i<ainfo->nm; i+=ntasks,++nmnew)
-    {
-    ainfo->mval[nmnew]=ainfo->mval[i];
-    ainfo->mvstart[nmnew]=ofs-ainfo->mval[nmnew];
-    ofs+=ainfo->lmax-ainfo->mval[nmnew]+1;
-    }
-  ainfo->nm=nmnew;
-  }
-
-static void reduce_geom_info(sharp_geom_info *ginfo)
-  {
-  int npairsnew=0;
-  ptrdiff_t ofs = 0;
-  for (int i=mytask; i<ginfo->npairs; i+=ntasks,++npairsnew)
-    {
-    ginfo->pair[npairsnew]=ginfo->pair[i];
-    ginfo->pair[npairsnew].r1.ofs=ofs;
-    ofs+=ginfo->pair[npairsnew].r1.nph;
-    ginfo->pair[npairsnew].r2.ofs=ofs;
-    if (ginfo->pair[npairsnew].r2.nph>0) ofs+=ginfo->pair[npairsnew].r2.nph;
-    }
-  ginfo->npairs=npairsnew;
-  }
-
-static ptrdiff_t get_nalms(const sharp_alm_info *ainfo)
-  {
-  ptrdiff_t res=0;
-  for (int i=0; i<ainfo->nm; ++i)
-    res += ainfo->lmax-ainfo->mval[i]+1;
-  return res;
-  }
-
-static ptrdiff_t get_npix(const sharp_geom_info *ginfo)
-  {
-  ptrdiff_t res=0;
-  for (int i=0; i<ginfo->npairs; ++i)
-    {
-    res += ginfo->pair[i].r1.nph;
-    if (ginfo->pair[i].r2.nph>0) res += ginfo->pair[i].r2.nph;
-    }
-  return res;
-  }
-
-int main(int argc, char **argv)
-  {
-  MPI_Init(NULL,NULL);
-  MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD,&ntasks);
-  MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD,&mytask);
-  int master=(mytask==0);
-
-  sharp_module_startup("sharp_bench2",argc,7,
-    "<healpix|ecp|gauss> <lmax> <nside|nphi> <a2m/m2a> <spin> <ntrans>",0);
-
-  int lmax=atoi(argv[2]);
-  sharp_jobtype jtype = (strcmp(argv[4],"a2m")==0) ?
-    SHARP_ALM2MAP : SHARP_MAP2ALM;
-  int spin=atoi(argv[5]);
-  int ntrans=atoi(argv[6]);
-
-  sharp_geom_info *tinfo;
-  ptrdiff_t npix=0;
-  int geom2=0;
-  if (strcmp(argv[1],"gauss")==0)
-    {
-    int nrings=geom2=lmax+1;
-    int ppring=atoi(argv[3]);
-    sharp_make_gauss_geom_info (nrings, ppring, 0., 1, ppring, &tinfo);
-    }
-  else if (strcmp(argv[1],"ecp")==0)
-    {
-    int nrings=geom2=2*lmax+2;
-    int ppring=atoi(argv[3]);
-    sharp_make_ecp_geom_info (nrings, ppring, 0., 1, ppring, &tinfo);
-    }
-  else if (strcmp(argv[1],"healpix")==0)
-    {
-    int nside=atoi(argv[3]);
-    if (nside<1) nside=1;
-    geom2=4*nside-1;
-    sharp_make_healpix_geom_info (nside, 1, &tinfo);
-    }
-  else
-    UTIL_FAIL("unknown grid geometry");
-
-  reduce_geom_info(tinfo);
-  npix=get_npix(tinfo);
-
-  int mmax=lmax;
-  int ncomp = ntrans*((spin==0) ? 1 : 2);
-
-  double **map;
-  ALLOC2D(map,double,ncomp,npix);
-
-  sharp_alm_info *alms;
-  sharp_make_triangular_alm_info(lmax,mmax,1,&alms);
-
-  reduce_alm_info(alms);
-  ptrdiff_t nalms=get_nalms(alms);
-
-  dcmplx **alm;
-  ALLOC2D(alm,dcmplx,ncomp,nalms);
-
-  for (int n=0; n<ncomp; ++n)
-    {
-    for (int i=0; i<npix; ++i) map[n][i]=1;
-    for (int i=0; i<nalms; ++i) alm[n][i]=1;
-    }
-
-  double time=1e20;
-  unsigned long long opcnt=0;
-  for (int ntries=0; (ntries<2)||(ntries*time<5); ++ntries)
-    {
-    double ltime;
-    unsigned long long lopcnt;
-    sharp_execute_mpi(MPI_COMM_WORLD,jtype,spin,&alm[0],&map[0],
-      tinfo,alms,ntrans,SHARP_DP,&ltime,&lopcnt);
-
-    ltime=maxTime(ltime);
-    if (ltime<time) { time=ltime; opcnt=totalops(lopcnt); }
-    }
-  DEALLOC2D(map);
-  DEALLOC2D(alm);
-
-  sharp_destroy_alm_info(alms);
-  sharp_destroy_geom_info(tinfo);
-
-  double mHWM=totalMem(VmHWM());
-
-  int nomp=omp_get_max_threads();
-
-  if (master)
-    printf("%-12s %-7s %-3s %2d %d %2d %3d %5d %5d %1d %.2e %7.2f %9.2f\n",
-      getenv("HOST"),argv[1],argv[4],spin,VLEN,nomp,ntasks,lmax,geom2,ntrans,
-      time,opcnt/(time*1e9),mHWM/(1<<20));
-
-  MPI_Finalize();
-  return 0;
-  }
-
-#else
-
-#include "c_utils.h"
-
-int main(void)
-  { UTIL_FAIL("Need OpenMP and MPI"); return 1; }
-
-#endif