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@@ -262,9 +262,8 @@ prompt latency when using Powerlevel10k, please
 
 ### Is Powerlevel10k fast to load?
 
-The amount of time it takes for Powerlevel10k to render the first prompt is singnificantly higher
-than for the subsequent prompts. In comparison to other ZSH themes, Powerlevel10k loading latency
-is unremarkable. Powerlevel10k is neither fast nor slow to load.
+The amount of time it takes for Powerlevel10k to render the first prompt is higher than for the
+subsequent prompts but it's still fairly fast.
 
 Time to first prompt can be measured with the following benchmark:
 
@@ -272,13 +271,12 @@ Time to first prompt can be measured with the following benchmark:
 time (repeat 100 zsh -dfis <<< 'source ~/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme')
 ```
 
-On the same machine as in the [prompt benchmark](#is-it-really-fast) this results in 59.7 ms per
+On the same machine as in the [prompt benchmark](#is-it-really-fast) this results in 36.9 ms per
 invocation when executed in a small git repository (I used the `powerlevel10k` repo itself). For
 comparison, the same benchmark gives 171 ms for powerlevel9k/master and 505 ms for
 powerlevel9k/next.
 
-*Note: Powerlevel10k startup latency can be reduced by about 15% by compiling its source files with
-`zcompile`.*
+*Note: Powerlevel10k is significantly faster to load with zsh version 5.4 and above.*
 
 ### Does Powerlevel10k always render exactly the same prompt as Powerlevel9k given the same config?