Update benchmark results in README.md

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@@ -143,21 +143,19 @@ Advice to distributors
 A note on compiler flags: Mosh is security-sensitive code. When making
 automated builds for a binary package, we recommend passing the option
 `--enable-compile-warnings=error` to ./configure. On GNU/Linux with
-gcc and a system boost, the package should compile cleanly with
--Werror. Please report a bug if it doesn't.
+g++ or clang++, the package should compile cleanly with
+`-Werror`. Please report a bug if it doesn't.
 
 Mosh ships with a default optimization setting of `-O2`. Some
 distributors have asked about changing this to `-Os` (which causes a
 compiler to prefer space optimizations to time optimization). We have
-benchmarked mosh with g++ 4.6 and clang++ 2.9 to see if `-Os` might be
-preferable. In both cases, -Os did produce a smaller binary (by up to
-40%, saving a few hundred kilobytes), but at a considerable cost to
-mosh's performance -- about 28-31% for both compilers, or similar to a
-typical net benefit from enabling optimization. While Mosh is not
-especially CPU intensive and mostly sits idle when the user is not
-typing, our recommendation to distributors would be to stay with the
-default of `-O2` unless saving space on disk is particularly
-important.
+benchmarked with the included `src/examples/benchmark` program to test
+this. The results are that `-O2` is 40% faster than `-Os` with g++ 4.6
+on GNU/Linux, and 16% faster than `-Os` with clang++ 3.1 on Mac OS
+X. In both cases, `-Os` did produce a smaller binary (by up to 40%,
+saving almost 200 kilobytes on disk). While Mosh is not especially CPU
+intensive and mostly sits idle when the user is not typing, we think
+the results suggest that `-O2` (the default) is preferable.
 
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