26.0.1

README.md

@@ -58,6 +58,20 @@ cdrustanoia -r -- "-3" out.raw
 Use `cdrustanoia --help` for the full option and span documentation.  The man
 page is the original cdparanoia man page.
 
+## Benchmarks
+
+The core crate contains a small synthetic benchmark for the paranoia read path
+and the sample index:
+
+```sh
+cargo run --release -p cdrustanoia_core --example bench_paranoia -- 5000
+```
+
+It reports index setup/query times, a comparison with the old `HashMap`
+index, and overall synthetic read throughput.  The image backend is
+memory-backed, so the absolute numbers are useful for regression tracking
+rather than as a prediction of physical drive speed.
+
 ## C API
 
 The two C libraries export the traditional symbols and use the original