Little benchmark between Curl and Net::Http

gistfile1.txt

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'benchmark'
require 'rubygems'
require 'curl'
require 'net/http'

URL = "URL HERE"
Benchmark.bm do|b|
  b.report("CURL") do
    1000.times do
      Curl::Easy.new("#{URL}").perform
    end
  end
  b.report("STANDARD") do
    1000.times do
      Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse("#{URL}"))
    end
  end
end