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@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ From the repository root:
 
 Run the suite from the root—some tests open fixture files by paths
 relative to it. The full suite processes several real dumps from
-`test/dumps/` and takes around fifteen minutes; expected outputs live in
+`test/dumps/` and takes a couple of minutes; expected outputs live in
 `test/baseline_output/`.
 
 ## Authors