In reply to Chris Hemedinger.

So my original dataset had a record length of 2735... I shaved it down to 1505 and that took it from 70 seconds to 61.
I then tried removing all formats... that took off a few more seconds.
Finally I tried creating an empty style using proc template. That took off about another 6 seconds.
So I was able to get it from 70 seconds to 54... but that's still incredibly slow for a small table dump.

Looks like proc export it is... fortunately I have SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files.