diff --git a/benchmark/xpath/evaluator/big_xml_average_bench.rb b/benchmark/xpath/evaluator/big_xml_average_bench.rb
index eab4203..6704900 100644
--- a/benchmark/xpath/evaluator/big_xml_average_bench.rb
+++ b/benchmark/xpath/evaluator/big_xml_average_bench.rb
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ require_relative '../../benchmark_helper'
 
 doc = Oga.parse_xml(big_xml_file)
 
+# Warm up any caches
+doc.xpath('descendant-or-self::location')
+
 measure_average do
   doc.xpath('descendant-or-self::location')
 end