On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Alex Loukissas wrote:
>
>> Is there a benefit over what I'm doing now (i.e. looping through the URIs
>> and issuing a curl_easy_perform) versus having a number of handles in a
>> curl_multi_handle? From what I understand, the multi interface is doing the
>> same thing (i.e. serially doing a curl_easy_perform for each handle).
>
> The multi interface does all the transfers you add to it in parallell.

So does it do it in a multi-threaded fashion (probably not, since I
didn't have to compile/link against a threading library)? I was under
the impression that that's not the case. Or by parallel you mean it
opens simultaneous ports and interleaves them?

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