From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-25T04:28:19+09:00
Subject: Re: cURL in ruby? Faster than Net::HTTP?

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Ben Johnson wrote:

>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> I just implemented curl using `curl`. I would say I have about 60 - 100
> simulatneous requests going out at the same time. With the switch
> between Net::HTTP to using `curl` I noticed a speed increase of almost 3
> times. Either Net::HTTP is slow or ruby is slow, but something in
> Net::HTTP is slowing it down quite a bit.

search for http reverse dns.

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