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 Generally, modern C++ code which makes heavy use of header-only libraries will profit the most from
 cotiring.
 
+This [blog post][shrp] discusses speedup results obtained for real-world projects.
+
 known issues
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 [jom]:http://qt-project.org/wiki/jom
 [intel]:http://software.intel.com/en-us/c-compilers
 [XGE]:http://www.incredibuild.com
+[shrp]:http://unriskinsight.blogspot.co.at/2014/09/sharpen-your-tools.html