diff --git a/YamlDotNet.Benchmark/AliasBenchmarks.cs b/YamlDotNet.Benchmark/AliasBenchmarks.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..164206591
--- /dev/null
+++ b/YamlDotNet.Benchmark/AliasBenchmarks.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+// This file is part of YamlDotNet - A .NET library for YAML.
+// Copyright (c) Antoine Aubry and contributors
+//
+// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
+// this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
+// the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
+// use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
+// of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
+// so, subject to the following conditions:
+//
+// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+// copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+//
+// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+// IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+// FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+// AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+// LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+// OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+// SOFTWARE.
+
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using BenchmarkDotNet.Attributes;
+using YamlDotNet.Serialization;
+
+namespace YamlDotNet.Benchmark;
+
+// Exercises the anchor/alias path, which the rest of the suite does not touch. The graph holds
+// many references to a small set of shared objects, so serialization (with aliases enabled, the
+// default) emits anchors + aliases, and deserialization resolves them via the alias value
+// deserializer. This isolates the anchor-assignment, anchor-name and alias-resolution hot paths.
+public class AliasBenchmarks
+{
+ private const int ReferenceCount = 5000;
+
+ private readonly ISerializer serializer = new SerializerBuilder().Build();
+ private readonly IDeserializer deserializer = new DeserializerBuilder().Build();
+
+ private List
graph = null!;
+ private string yaml = "";
+
+ [GlobalSetup]
+ public void Setup()
+ {
+ var shared = new[]
+ {
+ new Address { Street = "1 Shared Way", City = "Common", State = "CA", Zip = "90001", Country = "US" },
+ new Address { Street = "2 Shared Way", City = "Common", State = "CA", Zip = "90002", Country = "US" },
+ new Address { Street = "3 Shared Way", City = "Common", State = "CA", Zip = "90003", Country = "US" },
+ };
+
+ graph = new List(ReferenceCount);
+ for (var i = 0; i < ReferenceCount; i++)
+ {
+ graph.Add(shared[i % shared.Length]);
+ }
+
+ yaml = serializer.Serialize(graph);
+ }
+
+ [Benchmark]
+ public string SerializeWithAliases() => serializer.Serialize(graph);
+
+ [Benchmark]
+ public List DeserializeWithAliases() => deserializer.Deserialize>(yaml);
+}
diff --git a/YamlDotNet.Benchmark/BigFileBenchmark.cs b/YamlDotNet.Benchmark/BigFileBenchmark.cs
index efad79e7c..e0a1b9af3 100644
--- a/YamlDotNet.Benchmark/BigFileBenchmark.cs
+++ b/YamlDotNet.Benchmark/BigFileBenchmark.cs
@@ -19,16 +19,12 @@
// OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
// SOFTWARE.
-using System.IO.Compression;
using System.Text;
using BenchmarkDotNet.Attributes;
-using FastSerialization;
-using YamlDotNet.RepresentationModel;
using YamlDotNet.Serialization;
namespace YamlDotNet.Benchmark;
-[MemoryDiagnoser]
public class BigFileBenchmark
{
private string yamlString = "";
diff --git a/YamlDotNet.Benchmark/ObjectGraphBenchmarks.cs b/YamlDotNet.Benchmark/ObjectGraphBenchmarks.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..54286263c
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+++ b/YamlDotNet.Benchmark/ObjectGraphBenchmarks.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+// This file is part of YamlDotNet - A .NET library for YAML.
+// Copyright (c) Antoine Aubry and contributors
+//
+// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
+// this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
+// the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
+// use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
+// of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
+// so, subject to the following conditions:
+//
+// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+// copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+//
+// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+// IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+// FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+// AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+// LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+// OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+// SOFTWARE.
+
+using BenchmarkDotNet.Attributes;
+using YamlDotNet.Serialization;
+
+namespace YamlDotNet.Benchmark;
+
+// Exercises the full serialize / deserialize object-mapping pipeline over a realistic,
+// heterogeneous typed graph (see SampleModel). This is the read-path-weighted core of the
+// campaign: DeserializeTyped and RoundtripTyped drive the reflection/property-lookup hot paths,
+// SerializeTyped drives object-graph traversal + the emitter, and DeserializeUntyped drives the
+// scalar/collection/dictionary deserializers with runtime type resolution.
+public class ObjectGraphBenchmarks
+{
+ private const int EmployeeCount = 2000;
+
+ private readonly ISerializer serializer = new SerializerBuilder().Build();
+ private readonly IDeserializer deserializer = new DeserializerBuilder().Build();
+
+ private Company company = null!;
+ private string yaml = "";
+
+ [GlobalSetup]
+ public void Setup()
+ {
+ company = SampleModel.CreateCompany(EmployeeCount);
+ yaml = serializer.Serialize(company);
+ }
+
+ [Benchmark]
+ public string SerializeTyped() => serializer.Serialize(company);
+
+ [Benchmark]
+ public Company DeserializeTyped() => deserializer.Deserialize(yaml);
+
+ [Benchmark]
+ public object? DeserializeUntyped() => deserializer.Deserialize