Someone should refresh these benchmarks and test a modern #pycurl against python requests.
"PyCurl is much faster than Requests (or other HTTP client libraries), generally completing smaller requests 2-3x as fast, and requires 3-10x less CPU time" (nine years ago)
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@bagder in my test from a few years ago, pycurl was much faster than ApacheBench (ab) when running quick benchmarks.
That was somewhat surprising.