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I have a program that exports binary records to text format.  A sample
record might be 196MB and the resulting export text file 607MB.  I've
been using Text_Io to write out the text file, but inspired by the K-
Nucleotide thread decided to give stream_io a try.  So now I want to
compare.  I run the old Text_Io version and it takes 133 seconds to
complete.  I run the Stream_Io version, it completes in 88 seconds!
Nice improvement, I want to get some more test points so I run the old
version again and get a 99 second time, okay... I run the new version
and get a 145 second time to completion.  Is there some optimization I
should be turning on/off, some OS caching I can configure so I can get
less variation in my testing?  I'm compiling with GNAT 20080521 build
on Windows XP.