Test 1: run on localhost, ideal case for no network latency, no cache
 URI: http://localhost, GET method 
 Compare COUNT: 10000
Benchmark: timing 10000 iterations of Furl, curl, lite, lwp, lwp_simple...
Furl: 5.90996 wallclock secs (1.92 usr + 0.62 sys =  2.55 CPU) @3926/s
curl: 6.10753 wallclock secs (1.16 usr + 1.70 sys =  2.87 CPU) @3487/s
lite: 5.68429 wallclock secs (2.53 usr + 0.55 sys =  3.09 CPU) @3240/s
lwp: 16.2804 wallclock secs (12.20 usr + 0.50 sys = 12.70 CPU) @787/s
lwp_simple: 16.7128 wallclock secs(12.92 usr + 0.54 sys = 13.46 CPU) @ 742/s

             Rate lwp_simple     lwp    lite    curl    Furl
lwp_simple  743/s         --     -6%    -77%    -79%    -81%
lwp         788/s         6%      --    -76%    -77%    -80%
lite       3241/s       336%    311%      --     -7%    -17%
curl       3488/s       369%    343%      8%      --    -11%
Furl       3926/s       429%    398%     21%     13%      --