diff --git a/README b/README index 9ea1456f..ad232e11 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ 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: @@ -31,12 +31,12 @@ Buliding using tcmalloc ----------------------- 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