more speed claims

diff --git a/manual.asciidoc b/manual.asciidoc
index 379a2c7..7e9859f 100644 (file)
--- a/manual.asciidoc
+++ b/manual.asciidoc
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ executables) and orchestrates building them, _quickly_.
 Ninja joins a sea of other build systems.  Its distinguishing goal is
 to be fast.  It is born from my work on the Chromium browser project,
 which has over 30,000 source files and whose other build systems
-(including one built from custom non-recursive Makefiles) take tens of
-seconds to start building after changing one file.
+(including one built from custom non-recursive Makefiles) can take ten
+seconds to start building after changing one file.  Ninja is under a
+second.
 
 Design goals
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