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Deleted trailing space in hello-cargo.md

Added note about build --release in hello-cargo

thanks to steven klabnik for pointing it out for me

edited out redundant wording
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johnz133 committed Mar 12, 2015
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```bash
$ cargo build
Compiling hello_world v0.0.1 (file:///home/yourname/projects/hello_world)
$ ./target/hello_world
$ ./target/debug/hello_world
Hello, world!
```

Bam! We build our project with `cargo build`, and run it with
`./target/hello_world`. This hasn't bought us a whole lot over our simple use
`./target/debug/hello_world`. This hasn't bought us a whole lot over our simple use
of `rustc`, but think about the future: when our project has more than one
file, we would need to call `rustc` more than once, and pass it a bunch of options to
tell it to build everything together. With Cargo, as our project grows, we can
just `cargo build` and it'll work the right way.
just `cargo build` and it'll work the right way. When you're project is finally ready for release, you can use `cargo build --release` to compile your crates with optimizations.

You'll also notice that Cargo has created a new file: `Cargo.lock`.

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Now that you've got the tools down, let's actually learn more about the Rust
language itself. These are the basics that will serve you well through the rest
of your time with Rust.
of your time with Rust.

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