Write File From Cache Really Slow?

[J. Landman Gay]

Ken Ray wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm downloading files via HTTP with 'load URL' and then I'm writing them to
> disk with "put url... into binfile". Everything works fine, but it takes a
> really long time to write the data to disk. For example, if I download a
> 12MB file into the cache, it takes well over a minute to write it to disk.
> 
> So two questions: (1) is there any other way I can get a 'loaded' file to
> disk other than the way I'm doing it, and (2) if not, is there anything I
> can do to speed it up?

I'm using "libURLDownloadToFile" and it's as fast as anything I download 
from a browser. If you don't need it in RAM first, try that.

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