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@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ GitHub marks V's code as written in Go. It's actually written in V, GitHub doesn
 
 The compilation is temporarily slower for this release:
 
-- Debug builds are used (use `v -prod -o v` to get faster compilation).
+- Debug builds are used (use `./v -prod -o v .` to get faster compilation).
 - vlib is recompiled with every program you build.
 - The new formatter runs on every single token and slows the compiler down by ~20%. This will be taken care of.
 - There are a lot of known issues that are quick to fix (like function lookups being O(n)).