From 0143c9ef2e7a0056aa64e532a3a73ad741d34ac0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Peter <mail@david-peter.de>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2026 11:29:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Describe the Linux cache-clearing example accurately

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 README.md | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5d67be3..4d41c5a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ hyperfine --warmup 3 'grep -R TODO *'
 ```
 
 Conversely, if you want to run the benchmark for a cold cache, you can use the `-p`/`--prepare`
-option to run a special command before *each* timing run. For example, to clear harddisk caches
-on Linux, you can run
+option to run a special command before *each* timing run. For example, to clear Linux filesystem caches,
+you can run
 ```sh
 sync; echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
 ```