Thanks to the object oriented technology of C++, you may change the inner
workings of the Banana Programming Toolbox easily.  By default, the File
objects use the standard, ANSI file I/O.  However, you may opt to use
FlashFile instead and perhaps you will be able to get your applications to
run over 6 times faster!

Benchmarks
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I have two computers here and ran the following three test programs on
both, with and without FlashFile (FF), with and without a disk cache:

number of system ticks to run the program (speed increase factor)

                    486/66                    386sx20

              cache      no cache        cache      no cache

TEST1         1080         6940          4608         7616
TEST1FF        849(1.27)   2343(2.96)    2507(1.84)   3293(2.31)

TEST2          362          680          4538         4701
TEST2FF        101(3.58)    279(2.44)     696(6.52)    837(5.62)

TEST3          779        19019          7119         8283
TEST3FF        385(2.02)   2829(6.72)    1873(3.80)   2692(3.08)



Note the savings in file sizes too.  These applications do not use much of
the file i/o libraries and so the savings are around 2k.  Some applications
may see a greater savings.

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