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@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ poor man's profiling for JVM's
 * agent that instruments loaded classes: -javaagent:perfix.jar
 * skip instrumentation with -Dperfix.excludes=java,com,org ...etc
 * shutdown hook to report executed methods:
-** #invocations
-** total execution time for the method in nanoseconds
-** average time in nanoseconds per method (= total/#invocatons)
+<br/> * invocations
+<br/> * total execution time for the method in nanoseconds
+<br/> * average time in nanoseconds per method (= total/#invocatons)