% make
Redis is just a single binary, but if you want to install it you can use
-the "make install" target that will copy the binary in /usr/local/bin
-for default. You can also use "make PREFIX=/some/other/directory install"
+the "make install" target that will copy the binary to /usr/local/bin
+by default. You can also use "make PREFIX=/some/other/directory install"
if you wish to use a different destination.
You can run a 32 bit Redis binary using:
% make 32bit
-After you build Redis is a good idea to test it, using:
+After you build Redis is a good idea to test it (which require Tcl), using:
% make test
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tcmalloc is a fast and space efficient implementation (for little objects)
-of malloc(). Compiling Redis with it can improve performances and memeory
+of malloc(). Compiling Redis with it can improve performance and memory
usage. You can read more about it here:
http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html
-In order to compile Redis with tcmalloc support install tcmalloc on your system
+In order to compile Redis with tcmalloc support, install tcmalloc on your system
and then use:
% make USE_TCMALLOC=yes