diff --git a/Sources/Hummingbird/Application.swift b/Sources/Hummingbird/Application.swift
index b6caf9198..332c69a3c 100644
--- a/Sources/Hummingbird/Application.swift
+++ b/Sources/Hummingbird/Application.swift
@@ -189,10 +189,8 @@ public final class HBApplication: HBExtensible {
     /// Version of `run` that can be called from asynchronous context
     @available(macOS 10.15, iOS 13.0, tvOS 13.0, watchOS 6.0, *)
     public func asyncRun() async throws {
-        try await self.onExecutionQueue { app in
-            try app.start()
-            app.wait()
-        }
+        try self.start()
+        await self.asyncWait()
     }
 
     /// Start application
@@ -254,22 +252,6 @@ public final class HBApplication: HBExtensible {
         }
     }
 
-    /// Run throwing closure on private execution queue
-    @available(macOS 10.15, iOS 13.0, tvOS 13.0, watchOS 6.0, *)
-    private func onExecutionQueue(_ process: @Sendable @escaping (HBApplication) throws -> Void) async throws {
-        let unsafeApp = HBUnsafeTransfer(self)
-        try await withCheckedThrowingContinuation { continuation in
-            HBApplication.executionQueue.async {
-                do {
-                    try process(unsafeApp.wrappedValue)
-                    continuation.resume()
-                } catch {
-                    continuation.resume(throwing: error)
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
     /// Run closure on private execution queue
     @available(macOS 10.15, iOS 13.0, tvOS 13.0, watchOS 6.0, *)
     private func onExecutionQueue(_ process: @Sendable @escaping (HBApplication) -> Void) async {
diff --git a/Sources/PerformanceTest/main.swift b/Sources/PerformanceTest/main.swift
index 8b90fada4..6589811dd 100644
--- a/Sources/PerformanceTest/main.swift
+++ b/Sources/PerformanceTest/main.swift
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import NIOPosix
 
 // get environment
 let hostname = HBEnvironment.shared.get("SERVER_HOSTNAME") ?? "127.0.0.1"
-let port = HBEnvironment.shared.get("SERVER_PORT", as: Int.self) ?? 8080
+let port = HBEnvironment.shared.get("SERVER_PORT", as: Int.self) ?? 8081
 
 // create app
 let elg = MultiThreadedEventLoopGroup(numberOfThreads: 2)
@@ -54,6 +54,4 @@ app.router.get("json") { _ in
 }
 
 // run app
-if #available(macOS 10.15, iOS 13.0, tvOS 13.0, watchOS 6.0, *) {
-    try await app.asyncRun()
-}
+try app.run()