Lets see where to start. 1. first you are creating a "big ass array". you throw away th edata. No reason to do that. 2. You are opening/closing the file over and over again. You can write more than 8 bits to a file at once. Why not do something simple like... 
open( ... )
for( 1 .. $choice )
{
  print LOG "x";
}
close( ... )

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3rdly, why divide choice by itself to get 1? What if the user types in 0? you dont' exit gracefully, but kill your own program.

Play that funky music white boy..

In reply to Re: Slow file creator by exussum0
in thread Slow file creator by Anonymous Monk

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