On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Gabriel wrote:

> The multi interface works great, except it's blocking on the first call to
> perform() - while doing the DNS lookup, I guess. After that, I can poll it
> and it behaves as expected. In practice, my (engine drawn) mouse pointer
> freezes during that call, which is not nice.
>
> Is there a way to make the call more responsive, without resorting to
> threads?

The "block" is indeed very likely to be the DNS lookup, and the only really
good way to avoid that is to install c-ares[*] and build libcurl to use that
for name resolving.

[*] = http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/

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