optimize a download

[joaquin5EDD]

Hello. I have this code where I download 54 (short) sound files. I also have a button that, while downloading, you can go back (in case the user has made the wrong file)

when I start downloading a group of files and hit the back button and then re-download the same group of files, the load is considerably faster!! (I do not know why!)

Is there a way to optimize this download so that it goes fast also the first time I hit it?

Thank you very much!

function load_soundsF():void{
	i = current_index;
	this[soundZ[i]] = new Sound();
	this[soundZ[i]].load (new URLRequest(this[Data.so.data.sound+i]));
	pantallaCarga.progressNumber.text=i + " / 54";
	pantallaCarga.carga_text.text = "Cargando "+ Data.so.data["sound"].split("_").join(" ")+"....";

	this[soundZ[i]].addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onError);
	this[soundZ[i]].addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, imagenCargada);
	
	function onError(event:IOErrorEvent):void {
		trace("ioErrorHandler");
		dispatchEvent(errorA);
	}
	function imagenCargada(event:Event):void{

	// load progress has advanced another 1/54th. update your loadbar.
		current_index++;

		if(current_index<54){
			load_soundsF();
		}
		else {
			//pantallaCarga.formato_1.text = Data.so.data["sound"].split("_").join(" ")+" cargado con exito";
			pantallaCarga.gotoAndStop(1);
		}

	}
}

pantallaCarga.back_button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,back_home);

private function back_home(e:MouseEvent):void{
	dispatchEvent(backE);
}

[joaquin5EDD]

I managed to speed up the download with this code. The issue was that calling the download function several times (before the download finished) speeded up this download. so I've called it multiple times in a loop, like so:

for (var j:uint=0; j<5; j++) {
	load_soundsF();
}


function load_soundsF():void{
	i = current_index;
	this[soundZ[i]] = new Sound();
	this[soundZ[i]].load (new URLRequest(this[Data.so.data.sound+i]));
	pantallaCarga.progressNumber.text=i + " / 54";
	pantallaCarga.carga_text.text = "Cargando "+ Data.so.data["sound"].split("_").join(" ")+"....";

	this[soundZ[i]].addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onError);
	this[soundZ[i]].addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, imagenCargada);
	
	function onError(event:IOErrorEvent):void {
		trace("ioErrorHandler");
		dispatchEvent(errorA);
	}
	function imagenCargada(event:Event):void{

	// load progress has advanced another 1/54th. update your loadbar.
		current_index++;

		if(current_index<54){
			load_soundsF();
		}
		else {
			//pantallaCarga.formato_1.text = Data.so.data["sound"].split("_").join(" ")+" cargado con exito";
			pantallaCarga.gotoAndStop(1);
		}

	}
}

pantallaCarga.back_button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,back_home);

private function back_home(e:MouseEvent):void{
	dispatchEvent(backE);
}

[ClayUUID]

Telling a browser to download the same file multiple times does NOT magically make it download faster. If your downloads seemed to run faster after interrupting it, that's probably because it had cached the files it had already downloaded.

However, it is sometimes possible to make downloads of many files faster by dispatching several download requests in parallel, so it's possible this is what your nightmarish solution is accidentally doing.