Yes, known optimization opportunity.

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Rune Moberg <jjfl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote:
> > The idea(l) is that the files are extracted then moved, so that only
> > complete and verified files are in the cache. When TMP and appdata are
> > on the same volume, it should be a move, afaik. Definitely a bug if the
> > files are left behind in TMP, though.
>
> A bit annoying if your %temp% is on another drive. Lots of extra IO
> just for the sake of IO... (extremely amusing when an archiving
> utility such as WinRar does that -- it effectively doubles the time it
> takes to unpack an archive, unless %temp% is on the same drive of
> course)
>
> Why not write to a temporary name in the target directory and rename that?
>
> --
> Rune
>
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