in reply to highest performance http load test architecture in perl?

What performance increase do you get if you

  1. change this line in your second program:
    my @urls : shared = <DATA>;

    to

    my @urls = <DATA>;
  2. Restrict the number of concurrent threads to the same number cores you have?

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