It's not unheard of for Perl code to be 10x slower (or more) than C.
Still, a bit of Devel::NYTProf and optimization may be in order.
Is ab pre-resolving and caching the host address? I'm pretty sure the
Perl version isn't optimized for benchmarking loads from a single
address, but if
Hello,
I have a simple code at: http://pastebin.com/KeU4XANP
This script down a small CSS file from Yahoo CDN for 1000 times, I
benchmarked this script with ApacheBench(ab)
POE/Component::Client::HTTP: 70 requests / sec
ab (ab -n 1000 -c 100
