Performance Comparisons:

- AvaiList 1.70 by Andrew Farmer
- FeBBS 1.92 by Patrik Sjoberg
- FLIT 1.00 by Gerald Albion

System Tested: 40 MHz 80386DX with 128k cache RAM.  195 file areas,
               14542 files totalling 432245924 bytes.

Comparison: All three softwares were tested in various modes using the
            same list of directories on the same machine.  FLIT was
            tested in both Verbose (full descriptions) and Terse
            (truncated one-line descriptions) modes, with one-pass
            new-files lists and without such lists.  The other softwares
            were tested in as many equivalent modes as were available.
            The results speak for themselves - FLIT is the fastest in
            each mode!

Mode         |    FLIT     |    FeBBS      |   AvaiList (****)  |
-------------+-------------+---------------+--------------------|
Verbose      |    1:12     |    1:31       |   2:03             |
Terse        |    1:10     |    1:21 (*)   |   --- (***)        |
Verbose/New  |    1:30     |    1:38       |   1:57             |
Terse/New    |    1:29     |    ---  (**)  |   --- (***)        |


Notes:

(*)    FeBBS "Condensed" List
(**)   FeBBS "News" lists are not condensed
(***)  Availist has no equivalent of Terse mode.
(****) It should be noted that Availist crashed on a file description that
       had a word which was too long for its description wrapper to
       handle - AvaiList started writing spaces to its output file ad
       infinitum, and the machine had to be restarted.  FeBBS and FLIT
       both chopped the long word in the middle.