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diff --git a/libraries/base/GHC/Read.hs b/libraries/base/GHC/Read.hs
index a79f405079..14e4a9b7e2 100644
--- a/libraries/base/GHC/Read.hs
+++ b/libraries/base/GHC/Read.hs
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ readSymField fieldName readVal = do
-- typecheck/TcGenDeriv.hs) would generate inline code for parsing fields;
-- this, however, turned out to produce massive amounts of intermediate code,
-- and produced a considerable performance hit in the code generator.
--- Since Read instances are not generally supposed to be perfomance critical,
+-- Since Read instances are not generally supposed to be performance critical,
-- the readField and readSymField functions have been factored out, and the
-- code generator now just generates calls rather than manually inlining the
-- parsers. For large record types (e.g. 500 fields), this produces a