From: daniel.haxx@...
Date: 2006-08-24T16:15:02+09:00
Subject: Re: cURL in ruby? Faster than Net::HTTP?

why the lucky stiff wrote:

> The cURL library is indeed very fast, but it also suffers from a problem that
> Net::HTTP suffers from: its DNS lookup is not asynchronous and will block your
> process.

libcurl offers an asynchronous API that does the name resolving
asynchronously if you've built libcurl to do so.