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Expand Up @@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ when the goal is to identify only a subset of MIME types.** To achieve our goal,
we take the [official magic files](https://github.com/file/file/tree/master/magic/Magdir)
and remove all the unnecessary tests for the detection of the MIME types we are interested in.

We [benchmarked](#benchmarks-and-tests) about 60 file detections with different magic files. We found out that using a minimal
magic file containing 35 tests **speeds up the detection by two order of magnitude** compared to the default
magic file.

## Usage

See the [Install](#install) section for more details on the requirements of our tools.
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### benchmarks and tests

- [Tests](./tests) - unit and e2e tests
- [Benchmark](./benchmarks) - module and e2e benchmarks
- [Benchmark](./benchmarks) - libmagic, module and e2e benchmarks.

All tests and benchmarks can be run as follow:

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