@@ -10,24 +10,24 @@ Quick & easy benchmarking of command-line programs.
1010
1111## About
1212
13- quickbench is an update and repackaging of a benchmarking tool I've been
13+ quickbench is an update and repackaging of a little benchmarking tool I've been
1414using in the hledger project since 2008.
15- Use it like a more powerful "time" command for benchmarking general command-line programs,
15+ Use it like a more powerful "time" command for measuring the time taken by command-line programs,
1616or for creating repeatable benchmark scripts for your projects.
1717
1818quickbench produces very simple output (elapsed seconds),
1919as quickly as possible (running commands just once by default),
2020and tabulates results from multiple executables.
2121I find it very useful for quick and dirty, exploratory, and comparative measurements
22- that I (and others) can understand at a glance.
22+ that you can understand at a glance.
2323
2424## Examples
2525
2626Install it easily on most platforms with [ stack] ( https://haskell-lang.org/get-started ) (or cabal).
2727It's not yet on Hackage, so you'll need the source:
2828
2929```
30- $ git clone https://github.com/simonmichael/quickbench.git
30+ $ git clone https://github.com/simonmichael/quickbench
3131$ cd quickbench
3232$ stack install # ensure $PATH includes ~/.local/bin
3333```
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Best times:
7474```
7575
7676and run tests repeatedly to reduce or observe jitter.
77- ( quickbench assumes the quickest measurement is the truest one) :
77+ quickbench assumes the quickest measurement is the truest one:
7878```
7979$ quickbench -w echo,expr -p5 -n100 -N2
8080Running 1 tests 100 times with 2 executables at 2016-10-16 23:57:34.387764 UTC:
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