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README.md: succinctly mention the disassembler

Quentin Monnet 8 years ago
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@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ tcpdump so as to avoid useless copies to user-space. It was ported to Linux,
 where it evolved into eBPF (_extended_ BPF), a faster version with more
 where it evolved into eBPF (_extended_ BPF), a faster version with more
 features. While BPF programs are originally intended to run in the kernel, the
 features. While BPF programs are originally intended to run in the kernel, the
 virtual machine of this crate enables running it in user-space applications;
 virtual machine of this crate enables running it in user-space applications;
-it contains an interpreter as well as a x86_64 JIT-compiler for eBPF programs.
+it contains an interpreter, a x86_64 JIT-compiler for eBPF programs, as well as
+a disassembler.
 
 
 It is based on Rich Lane's [uBPF software](https://github.com/iovisor/ubpf/),
 It is based on Rich Lane's [uBPF software](https://github.com/iovisor/ubpf/),
 which does nearly the same, but is written in C.
 which does nearly the same, but is written in C.
@@ -563,9 +564,9 @@ details.
 ## Inspired by
 ## Inspired by
 
 
 * [uBPF](https://github.com/iovisor/ubpf), a C user-space implementation of an
 * [uBPF](https://github.com/iovisor/ubpf), a C user-space implementation of an
-  eBPF virtual machine, with a JIT-compiler (and also including assembler and
-  disassembler from and to the human-readable form of the instructions, such as
-  in `mov r0, 0x1337`), by Rich Lane for Big Switch Networks (2015)
+  eBPF virtual machine, with a JIT-compiler and disassembler (and also
+  including the assembler from the human-readable form of the instructions,
+  such as in `mov r0, 0x1337`), by Rich Lane for Big Switch Networks (2015)
 
 
 * [_Building a simple JIT in
 * [_Building a simple JIT in
   Rust_](http://www.jonathanturner.org/2015/12/building-a-simple-jit-in-rust.html),
   Rust_](http://www.jonathanturner.org/2015/12/building-a-simple-jit-in-rust.html),