couchdb's ruby libraries are hampered by Net:HTTP slowness

[Ben]

Hi everyone,

I did some profiling and benchmarking on couchdb and ruby, and found out 
that connecting via couchrest was abnormally slow, and found that 
Net::HTTP appears to be at fault.

This is relevant for building production-quality ruby http clients to 
interface with couchdb.

Here's my full writeup: 
http://ducktyped.com/2008/10/28/couchdb-ruby-libraries-are-fundamentally-flawed

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Ben