in reply to LWP:: Speed

There's nothing Perl can do about the speed of a web server you don't control :-) Neither can you fasten the network speed - you might experiment with compressed communication, but I don't expect that to be of any help.

But forking and downloading multiple files at once will help a lot.

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Re^2: LWP:: Speed
by Fletch (Bishop) on Jul 25, 2008 at 12:05 UTC

    Unless of course the problem is that the other side's CPU bound and you've now multiplied the demand it's under . . . :)

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