It doesn't really matter...
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Benchmark qw(:all);
use WWW::Curl::Lite::Request;
use WWW::Curl::Lite;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use LWP::Parallel::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;
my $request = new WWW::Curl::Lite::Request( { url => 'http://127.0.0.1
+' } );
my $curl = new WWW::Curl::Lite;
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
my $pua = new LWP::Parallel::UserAgent;
my $httpreq = new HTTP::Request( GET => 'http://127.0.0.1' );
timethese(
100,
{
'curl' => sub {
for ( 1 .. 10 ) { $curl->register($request) }
$curl->request;
},
'lwp' => sub {
for ( 1 .. 10 ) { $ua->request($httpreq) }
},
'lwp-parallel' => sub {
$pua->initialize;
$pua->nonblock(1);
for ( 1 .. 10 ) { $pua->register($httpreq) }
$pua->wait;
}
}
);
Benchmark: timing 100 iterations of curl, lwp, lwp-parallel...
curl: 26 wallclock secs ( 1.04 usr + 0.15 sys = 1.19 CPU) @ 84
+.03/s (n=100)
lwp: 30 wallclock secs ( 6.86 usr + 0.51 sys = 7.37 CPU) @ 13
+.57/s (n=100)
lwp-parallel: 34 wallclock secs (11.07 usr + 0.53 sys = 11.60 CPU) @
+ 8.62/s (n=100)