cmark

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -19,11 +19,14 @@ documents.
 Advantages of this library:
 
 - **Portable.**  The library and program are written in standard
-  C99 and have no external dependencies.  It has been tested with
+  C99 and have no external dependencies.  They have been tested with
   MSVC, gcc, tcc, and clang.
 
-- **Fast.** Performance is very good, on par with the fastest
-  Markdown processors:  see the [benchmarks].
+- **Fast.** cmark can render a Markdown version of *War and Peace* in
+  the blink of an eye (127 milliseconds on a ten year old laptop,
+  vs. 100-400 milliseconds for an eye blink).  In our [benchmarks],
+  cmark is 10,000 times faster than the original `Markdown.pl`, and
+  on par with the very fastest available Markdown processors.
 
 - **Accurate.** The library passes all CommonMark conformance tests.
 

diff --git a/benchmarks.md b/benchmarks.md
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 # Benchmarks
 
-Some benchmarks, run on an ancient Thinkpad running Intel Core 2 Duo at 2GHz.
+Here are some benchmarks, run on an ancient Thinkpad running Intel
+Core 2 Duo at 2GHz.  The input text is a 11MB Markdown file built by
+concatenating the Markdown sources of all the localizations of the
+first edition of
+[*Pro Git*](https://github.com/progit/progit/tree/master/en) by Scott
+Chacon.
 
 |Implementation     |  Time (sec)|
 |-------------------|-----------:|
@@ -19,10 +24,6 @@ Some benchmarks, run on an ancient Thinkpad running Intel Core 2 Duo at 2GHz.
 
 To run these benchmarks, use `make bench PROG=/path/to/program`.
 
-The input text is a 11MB Markdown file built by concatenating the
-Markdown sources of all the localizations of the first edition of
-[*Pro Git*](https://github.com/progit/progit/tree/master/en) by Scott Chacon.
-
 `time` is used to measure execution speed.  The reported
 time is the *difference* between the time to run the program
 with the benchmark input and the time to run it with no input.