diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 20a46f8b..eb4e1e35 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ Once installed, you can use `pkg-config --cflags --libs x86simdsortcpp` to
 populate the right cflags and ldflags to compile and link your C++ program.
 This repository also contains a test suite and benchmarking suite which are
 written using [googletest](https://github.com/google/googletest) and [google
-benchmark](https://github.com/google/benchmark) frameworks respectively. You
-can configure meson to build them both by using `-Dbuild_tests=true` and
-`-Dbuild_benchmarks=true`.
+benchmark](https://github.com/google/benchmark) (>= v1.9.2) frameworks
+respectively. You can configure meson to build them both by using
+`-Dbuild_tests=true` and `-Dbuild_benchmarks=true`.
 
 ## Build using OpenMP
 
diff --git a/benchmarks/bench-vqsort.cpp b/benchmarks/bench-vqsort.cpp
index d0dea2b1..5fc7bd2d 100644
--- a/benchmarks/bench-vqsort.cpp
+++ b/benchmarks/bench-vqsort.cpp
@@ -26,5 +26,7 @@ BENCH_SORT(vqsort, uint64_t)
 BENCH_SORT(vqsort, int64_t)
 BENCH_SORT(vqsort, uint32_t)
 BENCH_SORT(vqsort, int32_t)
+BENCH_SORT(vqsort, uint16_t)
+BENCH_SORT(vqsort, int16_t)
 BENCH_SORT(vqsort, float)
 BENCH_SORT(vqsort, double)
diff --git a/benchmarks/bench.h b/benchmarks/bench.h
index fdeb2cec..3d77a518 100644
--- a/benchmarks/bench.h
+++ b/benchmarks/bench.h
@@ -5,11 +5,12 @@
 #define MY_BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(func, T, test_case_name, ...) \
     BENCHMARK_PRIVATE_DECLARE(func) \
             = (::benchmark::internal::RegisterBenchmarkInternal( \
+                std::unique_ptr<benchmark::internal::Benchmark>( \
                     new ::benchmark::internal::FunctionBenchmark( \
                             #func "/" #test_case_name "/" #T, \
                             [](::benchmark::State &st) { \
                                 func<T>(st, __VA_ARGS__); \
-                            })))
+                            }))))
 
 #define BENCH_SORT(func, type) \
     MY_BENCHMARK_CAPTURE(func, type, random_128, 128, std::string("random")); \
diff --git a/scripts/bench-compare.sh b/scripts/bench-compare.sh
index a224acd0..2f6564b4 100755
--- a/scripts/bench-compare.sh
+++ b/scripts/bench-compare.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ if [ ! -d .bench/google-benchmark ]; then
 fi
 compare=$(realpath .bench/google-benchmark/tools/compare.py)
 
-meson setup -Dbuild_benchmarks=true -Dbuild_ippbench=true --warnlevel 0 --buildtype release builddir-${branch}
+meson setup -Dbuild_benchmarks=true -Dbuild_vqsortbench=true --warnlevel 0 --buildtype release builddir-${branch}
 cd builddir-${branch}
 ninja
 $compare filters ./benchexe $1 $2 --benchmark_repetitions=$3