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+# Benchmarking `factor`
+
+## Microbenchmarking deterministic functions
+
+We currently use [`criterion`] to benchmark deterministic functions,
+such as `gcd` and `table::factor`.
+
+Those benchmarks can be simply executed with `cargo bench` as usual,
+but may require a recent version of Rust, *i.e.* the project's minimum
+supported version of Rust does not apply to the benchmarks.
+
+[`criterion`]: https://bheisler.github.io/criterion.rs/book/index.html