I am thinking about writing the XS glue for the apache bench tool (ab). The ab code as it is, is not very flexible, but it is damn fast. If I implemented it as a perl XS module, I could add the flexibility into a nice OO package. Is there any interest in such a module? Could it fit in with LWP somehow? I have not tried out LWPng yet - does it use XS code to speed up requests much faster than LWP? At our company we need to write a benchmarking suite, and LWP fits our needs perfectly except for the fact that its just not fast enough. It would be perfect if we could integrate ab with LWP. So, just wanting to get general feedback from the LWP community on whether such software would be useful to others. -Adi
