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)