On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, mad fencer wrote:

> Does anybody know why this might be? Are there curl configuration options I
> could set to speed it up?

As Dan Fandrich says, this is due to libssh2 "problems" but if you're
interested and willing to work on this subject you're more than welcome to
join the libssh2 efforts on improving performance.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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