In the snippets for `time`, by the end of the article, the `>` symbols have been escaped to their HTML equivalent: time ./mandel.golang 16000 > /dev/null

In the snippets for `time`, by the end of the article, the `>` symbols have been escaped to their HTML equivalent: time ./mandel.golang 16000 &gt; /dev/null time ./mandel.gccgo 16000 &gt; /dev/null They also happen to be within two `<pre>` tags. I guess there's something wrong in the rendering of your snippets. I say 'your' assuming that OP is the author.