Merge pull request #77 from Poincare/patch-1

[redis.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
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+++ b/README
@@ -15,26 +15,28 @@ It is as simple as:
     % 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
 
 Buliding using tcmalloc
 -----------------------
 
-tcmalloc is a fast and space efficient implementation of malloc(). Compiling
-Redis with it can improve performances and memeory usage. You can read
-more about it here: http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html
+tcmalloc is a fast and space efficient implementation (for little objects)
+of malloc(). Compiling Redis with it can improve performance and memory
+usage. You can read more about it here:
 
-In order to compile Redis with tcmalloc support install tcmalloc on your system
+http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.html
+
+In order to compile Redis with tcmalloc support, install tcmalloc on your system
 and then use:
 
     % make USE_TCMALLOC=yes