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 # Performance
 
-{fmt} can be tens of percent to 20–30 times faster than iostreams and
-`sprintf`, especially for numeric formatting. It minimizes dynamic memory
+{fmt} can be tens of percent to 20–30 times faster than `sprintf` and
+iostreams, especially for numeric formatting. It minimizes dynamic memory
 allocations and can optionally [compile format strings](
 https://fmt.dev/latest/api/#compile-api) into efficient formatting code.