diff --git a/cmd/tools/fast/fast.v b/cmd/tools/fast/fast.v
index 01293ea630..82817d264a 100644
--- a/cmd/tools/fast/fast.v
+++ b/cmd/tools/fast/fast.v
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ fn main() {
 	// Fetch all unprocessed commits (commits after the last processed commit)
 	mut commits := []string{}
 	println('!last_commit="$commit_hash"')
+	if last_commits.len == 0 || last_commits[0] == commit_hash {
+		println('nothing to benchmark')
+		exit(1)
+		return
+	}
 	for i, c in last_commits {
 		if c == commit_hash {
 			commits = last_commits[..i].reverse()
diff --git a/cmd/tools/fast/fast_job.v b/cmd/tools/fast/fast_job.v
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f63e1a013d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/tools/fast/fast_job.v
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2019-2021 Alexander Medvednikov. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by an MIT license
+// that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+import os
+import time
+
+// A job that runs in the background, checks for repo updates,
+// runs fast.v, pushes the HTML result to the fast.vlang.io GH pages repo.
+fn main() {
+	println(time.now())
+	if !os.exists('website') {
+		println('cloning the website repo...')
+		os.system('git clone git@github.com:/vlang/website.git')
+	}
+	if !os.exists('fast') {
+		println('"fast" binary (built with `v fast.v`) was not found')
+		return
+	}
+	for {
+		os.exec('git pull --rebase') or {
+			println('failed to git pull. uncommitted changes?')
+			return
+		}
+		println('running fast')
+		resp := os.exec('./fast') or {
+			println(err)
+			return
+		}
+		if resp.exit_code != 0 {
+			println('resp != 0, skipping')
+		} else {
+			os.chdir('website')
+			os.exec('git checkout gh-pages') ?
+			os.cp('../index.html', 'index.html') ?
+			os.system('git commit -am "update benchmark"')
+			os.chdir('..')
+		}
+		println('sleeping 20')
+		time.sleep(20)
+	}
+}