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curl performance

Daniel Stenberg · 14 Aug 2026 · daniel.haxx.se ↗

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  1. Our reading

    Shared cloud infrastructure makes it hard to get stable, reproducible performance-testing conditions.

    Their wordsThis is basically impossibly to accomplish using most cloud infrastructure since those are almost always shared with countless other users.

  2. Our reading

    Performance test results are highly dependent on the specific machine, library versions, and other components used, making them hard to compare over time.

    Their wordsPerformance tests are highly specific and dependent on the exact machine it runs on, the exact third party libraries and their versions that are used, the other components involved in the tests, such as the servers, and more.