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Document the --quality switch.
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By default, `warmup_stats` produces high quality statistics, which can take
considerable time. If you want to quickly experiment with things, you can use
the `--quality low` switch: this makes `warmup_stats` run considerably quicker,
but does lead to lower quality (and thus less reliable) statistics being
produced. Although the differences are often fairly minor, we do not encourage
the use of `--quality low` when formally publishing benchmark results.

## Creating diffs

Benchmarking is often performed in order to test whether a change in a given
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