Benchmark: timing 1000 iterations of curl, lwp... curl: 48 wallclock secs ( 0.10 usr + 0.08 sys = 0.18 CPU) @ 5555.56/s (n =1000) (warning: too few iterations for a reliable count) lwp: 16 wallclock secs ( 4.68 usr + 0.69 sys = 5.37 CPU) @ 186.22/s (n= 1000)