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@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ with an actor. Actors are thus similar to E's *vats*.
 So far, I've limited myself to implementing a straightforward Actor
 system, not including Dataspace or Syndicate primitives.
 
+## Quickstart
+
+    git clone https://git.syndicate-lang.org/syndicate-lang/syndicate-java
+    ant jar
+
+Then, if you'd like to run the simple million-actor/200-message
+benchmark discussed below, run `make ziprun`.
+
 ## Surprisingly fast
 
 It's quite interesting all by itself, though: it's *very* fast and