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+This directory hold several benchmarking scripts used track performances of
+MediaWiki and/or PHP.
+
+## Consistency
+
+On Linux, use of `taskset` and `nice` can help get more consistent results.
+
+For example:
+
+ $ taskset 1 nice -n-10 php bench_wfIsWindows.php
+
+## Fixtures
+
+* australia-untidy.html.gz: Representative input text for benchmarkTidy.php.
+  It needs to be decompressed before use.