diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ca904b8..8224125 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,20 +20,19 @@ pre-cached `nscd`, ~8 milliseconds with `turbonss`.
 Project status
 --------------
 
-The project is finished and is not recommended for production; just use nscd.
-Turbonss duly implements the full user/group API in `src/libnss.zig`: feel free
-to copy that. turbonss is only 2-5 times faster than nscd, which usually does
-not matter (including for my original use case).
+The project is finished and was never used recommended for production. If you
+are considering using turbonss, try nscd first. Turbonss is only 2-5 times
+faster than pre-warmed nscd, which usually does not matter enough to go through
+the hoops of using a nonstandard nss library in the first place.
 
-Yours truly (the author) worked on this for about 7 months. And when this was
-finished it turned out that just slapping nscd on top of the existing NSS
-implementation is fast enough.
+Yours truly worked on this for about 7 months. This was also my first zig
+project which I never went to (nor really needed to) come back and clean up.
 
 Dependencies
 ------------
 
-1. zig v0.10. turbonss uses stage1 (the C++ version) and is not compatible with
-   stage2.
+1. zig v0.10. turbonss is implemented in stage1, so will not work with zig
+   v0.11+.
 2. [cmph][cmph]: bundled with this repository.
 
 Trying it out
@@ -43,7 +42,7 @@ Clone, compile and test first:
 
     $ git clone --recursive https://git.sr.ht/~motiejus/turbonss
     $ zig build test
-    $ zig build -Dtarget=x86_64-linux-gnu.2.31 -Dcpu=x86_64_v3 -Drelease-safe=true
+    $ zig build -Dtarget=x86_64-linux-gnu.2.16 -Dcpu=baseline -Drelease-safe=true
 
 One may choose different options, depending on requirements. Here are some
 hints:
@@ -54,8 +53,19 @@ hints:
 3. `-Drelease-small=true` for smallest binary sizes.
 4. `-Dstrip=true` to strip debug symbols.
 
-Test it on a real system
-------------------------
+For reference, size of the shared library and helper binaries when compiled
+with `-Dstrip=true -Drelease-small=true`:
+
+     17K Nov 30 11:53 turbonss-analyze
+     16K Nov 30 11:53 turbonss-getent
+     17K Nov 30 11:53 turbonss-makecorpus
+    166K Nov 30 11:53 turbonss-unix2db
+     22K Nov 30 11:53 libnss_turbo.so.2.0.0
+
+Many thanks to Ulrich Drepper for [teaching how to link it properly][dso].
+
+Test turobnss on a real system
+------------------------------
 
 `db.turbo` is the TurboNSS database file. To create one from `/etc/group` and
 `/etc/passwd`, use `turbonss-unix2db`:
@@ -151,9 +161,10 @@ by 10x (to 100k each), the difference becomes even crazier:
 Documentation
 -------------
 
-Architecture is detailed in `docs/architecture.md`
-Development notes are in `docs/development.md`
+- Architecture is detailed in `docs/architecture.md`
+- Development notes are in `docs/development.md`
 
 [nsswitch]: https://linux.die.net/man/5/nsswitch.conf
 [id]: https://linux.die.net/man/1/id
 [cmph]: http://cmph.sourceforge.net/
+[dso]: https://akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf