diff --git a/benchmarks/run.sh b/benchmarks/run.sh
index b21b301..971e653 100755
--- a/benchmarks/run.sh
+++ b/benchmarks/run.sh
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ function geojson_area() {
 }
 
 # Do the calculations
+export RUSTFLAGS='-Ctarget-cpu=native'
 time cargo run --features ring_data --release -- \
 	compute "$PROJECT_ROOT/benchmarks/cardiff.bt" \
 	--scale 100 \