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 Benchmarks
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-*ring*'s benchmarks are located in the `benches` folder of this repository. Because
+*ring*'s benchmarks are located in the `bench` folder of this repository. Because
 there is lots of platform-specific code in *ring*, and because *ring* chooses
 dynamically at runtime which optimized implementation of each crypto primitive
 to use, it is very difficult to publish a useful single set of benchmarks;