> -----Original Message-----
> From: curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:curl-library-
> bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Stephen Ciscola
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:24 AM
> To: curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se
> Subject: Multi threaded during simple get?

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> My question is, do any of the lib curl api calls take
> advantage of any multi-threading during a simple get,
> to speed things up? Or is that too linear a process,
> and there's really no multi-threading it can do, one
> thing has to happen after the other.

It's almost inconceivable that splitting a single HTTP GET across
multiple threads could do anything to speed it up. I can imagine it
would usually make it slower though. (It's not supported by curl, I
think.) There's very little user-level CPU work involved in sending a
small GET request and then waiting for a response, and no apparent scope
for parallelization.

-- James
Received on 2006-10-05