Benchmarks of Darxite and other file transfer programs
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FTP:

curl uses a 50K buffer.
By default, Darxite uses an 8K buffer. Using a 50K buffer reduces local
download times for netscape.tgz to 9 or 8 seconds.

             | Netscape   | curl | Darxite
    Comments | 4.6        | 5.9  | 0.32       | 0.32 (10x)
-------------+------------+------+------------+-----------
10MB local   | 12, 12, 13 | 8, 7 | 10, 11, 12 | 14.4, 
100KB remote |
500KB remote |

Darxite
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Stopwatch started immediately after running "darxget". Times taken using
darxstat-gtk (so +-1sec) and do not include despooling.

local "netscape.tgz" (10669184 bytes)
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FTP: 12, 12, 14, 12, 13
FTP w/o logging: 12, 10, 10, 11, 11
HTTP: 11, 11, 11, 11, 11
HTTP w/o logging: 10, 10, 10, 9, 10

10x FTP: 16, 15, 16, 16, 16
w/o logging: 14, 14, 14, 13, 14
10x HTTP: 14, 13, 11, 12, 12
w/o logging: 16, 12, 11, 12, 11

remote "darxite-0.3.tar.gz" from "darxite.cjb.net" (198074 bytes)

HTTP: 1.40.00 1.04.39 55.86 1.10.00 1.54.84 1.26.34
w/o x11amp: 55.73
3x HTTP: 1.33.31 1.16.34
w/o x11amp: 1.04.11 1.01.28 1.01.97 1.01.59
w/x11amp: 1.24.46 1.23.96
