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@@ -450,17 +450,17 @@ as [mimalloc-bench](https://github.com/daanx/mimalloc-bench).
Testing on the 16-core AMD 5950x processor at 3.4Ghz (4.9Ghz boost), with
with 32GiB memory at 3600Mhz, running Ubuntu 20.04 with glibc 2.31 and GCC 9.3.0.
-We measure three versions of _mimalloc_: the main version _mi_ (tag:v1.7.0),
-the new v2.0 beta version as _xmi_ (tag:v2.0.0), and the main version in secure mode as _smi_ (tag:v1.7.0).
+We measure three versions of _mimalloc_: the main version `mi` (tag:v1.7.0),
+the new v2.0 beta version as `xmi` (tag:v2.0.0), and the main version in secure mode as `smi` (tag:v1.7.0).
The other allocators are
-Google's [_tcmalloc_](https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools) (tc, tag:gperftools-2.8.1) used in Chrome,
-Facebook's [_jemalloc_](https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc) (je, tag:5.2.1) by Jason Evans used in Firefox and FreeBSD,
-the Intel thread building blocks [allocator](https://github.com/intel/tbb) (tbb, tag:v2020.3),
-[rpmalloc](https://github.com/mjansson/rpmalloc) (rp,tag:1.4.1) by Mattias Jansson,
+Google's [_tcmalloc_](https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools) (`tc`, tag:gperftools-2.8.1) used in Chrome,
+Facebook's [_jemalloc_](https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc) (`je`, tag:5.2.1) by Jason Evans used in Firefox and FreeBSD,
+the Intel thread building blocks [allocator](https://github.com/intel/tbb) (`tbb`, tag:v2020.3),
+[rpmalloc](https://github.com/mjansson/rpmalloc) (`rp`,tag:1.4.1) by Mattias Jansson,
the original scalable [_Hoard_](https://github.com/emeryberger/Hoard) (git:d880f72) allocator by Emery Berger \[1],
the memory compacting [_Mesh_](https://github.com/plasma-umass/Mesh) (git:67ff31a) allocator by
Bobby Powers _et al_ \[8],
-and finally the default system allocator (glibc, 2.31) (based on _PtMalloc2_).
+and finally the default system allocator (`glibc`, 2.31) (based on _PtMalloc2_).
