diff --git a/wcclrules/main.cpp b/wcclrules/main.cpp
index 20069686f265bb4d768b592d7880acf1cb03332b..40936af13b68f04d2ef9736d706bd5e90c5d9482 100644
--- a/wcclrules/main.cpp
+++ b/wcclrules/main.cpp
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 #include <libwccl/parser/Parser.h>
 #include <libwccl/ops/rulesequence.h>
 #include <libcorpus2/tagsetmanager.h>
+#include <libcorpus2/util/tokentimer.h>
+
 
 #include <boost/bind.hpp>
 #include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>
@@ -20,6 +22,7 @@
 
 namespace {
 	bool quiet = false;
+	bool progress = false;
 
 	struct options {
 		bool first;
@@ -39,7 +42,10 @@ bool load_more_rules(Wccl::Parser& parser, const std::string& filename, Wccl::Ru
 
 		ret = parser.parseRuleSequence(is);
 		if (ret) {
-			std::cerr << ret->size() << "\n";
+			if (!quiet) {
+				std::cerr << "Loaded " << ret->size() << " rule(s) from "
+					<< filename << "\n";
+			}
 			std::copy(ret->begin(), ret->end(), std::back_inserter(rules));
 			return true;
 		} else {
@@ -69,17 +75,27 @@ bool load_more_rules(Wccl::Parser& parser, const std::string& filename, Wccl::Ru
 void do_stream(boost::shared_ptr<Corpus2::TokenWriter> writer, const Corpus2::Tagset& tagset, Wccl::RuleSequence& rules,
 	std::istream& is, const options& opts)
 {
-	Corpus2::XcesReader xr(tagset, is);
-	Corpus2::Sentence::Ptr s;
-	while ((s = xr.get_next_sentence())) {
-		if (opts.until_done) {
-			rules.execute_until_done(s, opts.until_done_iterations);
-		} else {
-			rules.execute_once(s);
+	Corpus2::XcesReader reader(tagset, is);
+	Corpus2::TokenTimer& timer = Corpus2::global_timer();
+	while (boost::shared_ptr<Corpus2::Chunk> c = reader.get_next_chunk()) {
+		foreach (boost::shared_ptr<Corpus2::Sentence>& s, c->sentences()) {
+			if (opts.until_done) {
+				rules.execute_until_done(s, opts.until_done_iterations);
+			} else {
+				rules.execute_once(s);
+			}
+			timer.count_sentence(*s);
+			if (progress) {
+				timer.check_slice();
+			}
+			if (opts.first) break;
 		}
-		writer->write_sentence(*s);
+		writer->write_chunk(*c);
 		if (opts.first) break;
 	}
+	if (progress) {
+		timer.stats();
+	}
 }
 
 
@@ -110,6 +126,8 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
 			 "Files to load, looking at the extension to determine type\n")
 			("output-format,o", value(&output_format)->default_value("xces"),
 			 writers_help.c_str())
+			("progress,p", value(&progress)->zero_tokens(),
+			 "Show progress info")
 			("quiet,q", value(&quiet)->zero_tokens(),
 			 "Suppress messages\n")
 			("until-done,u", value(&opts.until_done)->zero_tokens(),
@@ -165,8 +183,11 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv)
 			}
 		}
 		if (!rules.empty()) {
+			Corpus2::TokenTimer& timer = Corpus2::global_timer();
+			timer.register_signal_handler();
 			boost::shared_ptr<Corpus2::TokenWriter> writer;
-			writer.reset(Corpus2::TokenWriter::create(output_format, std::cout, tagset));			foreach (const std::string& f, corpora_files) {
+			writer.reset(Corpus2::TokenWriter::create(output_format, std::cout, tagset));
+			foreach (const std::string& f, corpora_files) {
 				std::ifstream ifs(f.c_str());
 				if (ifs.good()) {
 					do_stream(writer, tagset, rules, ifs, opts);