From 0c5701bae0bb9cc01ff328f74e915b23ead3c08c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Peter <sharkdp@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2026 11:52:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Describe the Linux cache-clearing example accurately (#945)

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

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -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
 ```