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 Deli is a performance modeling tool, allowing you to understand and experiment
 with new designs at several orders of magnitude faster than wall-clock time.
-Specifically, Deli is designed to help you understand how long it takes for
-'jobs' or 'requests' to complete in your system. Deli borrows concepts and
+Deli is used to determine time for jobs or requests to be finished. Deli borrows concepts and
 terminology from [queueing
 theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory), and is implemented as a
 Haskell DSL, exposing a [Go (language)](https://golang.org/) -like concurrency