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added more details for benchmarks to ensure people can reproduce reliably

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@ -16,9 +16,12 @@ An efficient blocker for Chromium-based browsers. Fast and lean.
<sup>The above screenshots were taken after visiting many [reference benchmark](https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/Comparative-benchmarks-against-widely-used-blockers:-Top-15-Most-Popular-News-Websites)
links plus a bit of random browsing. All blockers were active at the same time,
thus they had to deal with exactly the same workload. Before the screenshot was
thus they had to deal with exactly the same workload. Before the screenshots were
taken, I left the browser idle for many minutes so as to let the browser's
garbage collector kicks in.</sup>
garbage collector kicks in. Also, after a while idling, it's good to open the dev
console for each extension and force a garbage collection cycle by clicking a couple of times
the trashcan icon in the _Timeline_ tab (this caused a ~20MB drop for µBlock and Adguard in Opera)
as garbage collectors sometimes works in a very lazy way, so I did this for each extension.</sup>
#### Dispelling a few myths flying around