[commit: nofib] master: Make shootout/README use markdown (7afa7c3)

[Johan Tibell]

Repository : ssh://darcs.haskell.org//srv/darcs/nofib

On branch  : master

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/7afa7c3aed193757bba80a0eadccffa4283266b7

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commit 7afa7c3aed193757bba80a0eadccffa4283266b7
Author: Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Feb 8 13:19:48 2013 -0800

    Make shootout/README use markdown

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 shootout/README    |   18 ------------------
 shootout/README.md |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/shootout/README b/shootout/README
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index 625a415..0000000
--- a/shootout/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-These benchmarks where take from The Computer Language Benchmarks Game
-[1] (formerly The Great Computer Language Shootout). They test highely
-micro-optimized code.
-
-To run the benchmarks under the official settings, pass mode=slow to
-make. You might also want to pass EXTRA_HC_OPTS="-fllvm".
-
-Notes:
-
- * The mandelbrot benchmark wasn't included as its binary output
-   (which would have to go in a .stdout file) is too large to check
-   into the source tree.
-
- * The regex-dna benchmark wasn't included as it depend on regex-pcre,
-   which requires C libraries that aren't installed by default on many
-   platforms.
-
-1. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/
diff --git a/shootout/README.md b/shootout/README.md
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index 0000000..11dfd77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shootout/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+These benchmarks where take from [The Computer Language Benchmarks
+Game](http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/) (formerly The Great
+Computer Language Shootout). They test highely micro-optimized code.
+
+To run the benchmarks under the official settings, pass `mode=slow` to
+make. You might also want to pass `EXTRA_HC_OPTS="-fllvm"`.
+
+Notes:
+
+ * The mandelbrot benchmark wasn't included as its binary output
+   (which would have to go in a .stdout file) is too large to check
+   into the source tree.
+
+ * The regex-dna benchmark wasn't included as it depend on regex-pcre,
+   which requires C libraries that aren't installed by default on many
+   platforms.