Profiling

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diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
index 9b10339..1231147 100644
--- a/INSTALL.md
+++ b/INSTALL.md
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ The gcc version has profiling support, run with
 
     make PROFILING=1
 
+
 ### OpenBlas
 
 Linking against a built-from-source OpenBlas is a first optimization
diff --git a/test/performance/releases.org b/test/performance/releases.org
index 30c96f8..4f1f68b 100644
--- a/test/performance/releases.org
+++ b/test/performance/releases.org
@@ -49,6 +49,18 @@ user    0m29.768s
 sys     0m1.544s
 #+END_SRC
 
+Running the GNU profiler I got K to be faster by removing the regexs
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC
+real    0m16.811s
+user    0m37.788s
+sys     0m2.168s
+#+END_SRC
+
+there is still some scope for improvement by changing safeGetLine and
+do_strtok_safe methods as well as less string copying during
+tokenization. I may get to that at some point.
+
 Running the GNU profiler on the MVLMM one rendered
 
 #+BEGIN_SRC