diff --git a/tests/eggcc-extraction.egg b/tests/eggcc-extraction.egg
index 92434b4de..2edb8c46d 100644
--- a/tests/eggcc-extraction.egg
+++ b/tests/eggcc-extraction.egg
@@ -1704,6 +1704,8 @@
 (let v103 (Func v0 v4 v5 v102))
 
 (run-schedule
+        ; only repeating twice to reduce benchmark CI performance
+        ; increasing to 3 times will change benchmark time from 4 minutes to 40+ minutes
         (repeat 2 (saturate fast-analyses)
                   (run)
                   (saturate subst)))