🔗 cURL performance

How fast is "fast" when it comes to cURL? Daniel Stenberg recently initiated a performance testing suite for cURL, which faced challenges and skepticism in the past. By leveraging his local development machine, he began conducting tests focused on download speeds and resource allocations, generating logs and graphs to visualize the data. This process led to the establishment of a public performance test summary, allowing developers to identify changes and improve cURL's efficiency based on real-time data. Stenberg's setup represents the first step towards long-term performance tracking, aiming to balance improvements across different aspects of cURL without unintended consequences. The journey is still in its early stages, but the initiative sparks collaborative potential among developers to refine the testing methods and explore future enhancements.