From fc6a77f510dc71ee083685543484b0b8bfa37978 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Turner <jturner.usa@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:54:09 -0400
Subject: update README

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 README.org | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.org b/README.org
index 3773bae..3dd932d 100644
--- a/README.org
+++ b/README.org
@@ -1,8 +1,19 @@
 * how to use
 First create the test database with ~scripts/mkdb.py~.
 
+#+BEGIN_SRC_BASH
+./scripts//mkdb.py --database /tmp/db --word-list /usr/share/dict/eff_large_wordlist.txt --num-records=1000000 --key-length=20-200 --value-length=10-100
+#+END_SRC
+
+Compile the bench executable with
+#+BEGIN_SRC_BASH
+meson setup build
+meson configure --buildtype=release build
+meson compile -C build
+#+END_SRC
+
 An example run of the benchmark:
 
 #+BEGIN_SRC_BASH
-bench ${database} ${limit:-10000} ${seed:-${RANDOM}}
+./build/bench ${database} ${limit:-10000} ${seed:-${RANDOM}}
 #+END_SRC
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