diff --git a/scripts/perf-counters/README.md b/scripts/perf-counters/README.md
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+# perf-counters
+
+Lightweight bindings to Linux perf event counters.
+
+```
+$ node
+> var PerfCounters = require('perf-counters');
+> PerfCounters.init();
+> var start = PerfCounters.getCounters(); console.log('test'); var end = PerfCounters.getCounters();
+test
+> start
+{ instructions: 1382, loads: 421, stores: 309 }
+> end
+{ instructions: 647633, loads: 195771, stores: 133246 }
+>
+```
diff --git a/scripts/perf-counters/binding.gyp b/scripts/perf-counters/binding.gyp
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+{
+  "targets": [
+    {
+      "target_name": "perfcounters",
+      "sources": [
+        "src/hardware-counter.cpp",
+        "src/perf-counters.cpp",
+        "src/thread-local.cpp",
+      ],
+      "cflags": [
+        "-Wno-sign-compare",
+      ],
+    },
+  ],
+}
diff --git a/scripts/perf-counters/index.js b/scripts/perf-counters/index.js
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+'use strict';
+
+module.exports = require('bindings')('perfcounters');
diff --git a/scripts/perf-counters/package.json b/scripts/perf-counters/package.json
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+{
+  "name": "perf-counters",
+  "version": "0.1.2",
+  "description": "Lightweight bindings to Linux perf event counters.",
+  "main": "index.js",
+  "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
+  "dependencies": {
+    "bindings": "^1.2.1"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/scripts/perf-counters/src/perf-counters.cpp b/scripts/perf-counters/src/perf-counters.cpp
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+/**
+ * Copyright 2013-2015, Facebook, Inc.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
+ * of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+ */
+
+#include <node.h>
+
+#include "hardware-counter.h"
+
+namespace PerfCounters {
+
+using HPHP::HardwareCounter;
+
+void Init(const v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& args) {
+  // TODO: Allow customizing recorded events
+  bool enable = true;
+  std::string events = "";
+  bool recordSubprocesses = false;
+  HardwareCounter::Init(enable, events, recordSubprocesses);
+  HardwareCounter::s_counter.getCheck();
+}
+
+void GetCounters(const v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>& args) {
+  v8::Isolate* isolate = args.GetIsolate();
+  v8::Local<v8::Object> obj = v8::Object::New(isolate);
+  std::pair<v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>> pair(isolate, obj);
+
+  HardwareCounter::GetPerfEvents(
+    [](const std::string& key, int64_t value, void* data) {
+      std::pair<v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>>& pair =
+        *reinterpret_cast<std::pair<v8::Isolate*, v8::Local<v8::Object>>*>(data);
+      v8::Isolate* isolate = pair.first;
+      v8::Local<v8::Object> obj = pair.second;
+      obj->Set(
+        v8::String::NewFromUtf8(isolate, key.c_str()),
+        v8::Number::New(isolate, value)
+      );
+    },
+    &pair);
+
+  args.GetReturnValue().Set(obj);
+}
+
+void InitModule(v8::Local<v8::Object> exports) {
+  NODE_SET_METHOD(exports, "init", Init);
+  NODE_SET_METHOD(exports, "getCounters", GetCounters);
+}
+
+NODE_MODULE(perfcounters, InitModule)
+
+}