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 # Performance
 
 Here is a performance report (with explanations) from the run of the
-included db_bench program.  The results are somewhat noisy, but should
+included `db_bench` program.  The results are somewhat noisy, but should
 be enough to get a ballpark performance estimate.
 
 ## Setup