However dubious it may be in concept, it often accelerates download
time many times over.  I have seen:

~150KB/s -> ~600KB/s
~500KB/s -> 1.4MB/s

and so on.  The acceleration is so dramatic that it can't simply be
aget lying about the speed.  It can't simply pretend to write
xsrc.tar.gz to disk, heh. ;)

--Blair

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