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aiohttp for Python is relatively performant and in a fairly easy to write language.

• pdimitar 6y ago
  Isn't that a library and not a CLI tool?
  • dharmab 6y ago
    Yes, in the context of my comment higher in the thread about using libraries. This gives you a lot more control of the connection pool and queues, which can get a lot more performance than simple cURL usage. From the cURL manpage: curl will attempt to re-use connections for multiple file transfers, so that getting many files from the same server will not do multiple connects / handshakes. This improves speed. Of course this is only done on files specified on a single command line and cannot be used between separate curl invokes. So using a library gives you more flexibility in reusing connections (and avoiding the expensive TCP/TLS handshake) than the simple patterns you can use with the cURL CLI. See also: https://docs.aiohttp.org/en/latest/http_request_lifecycle.html#using-a-session-as-a-best-practice https://docs.aiohttp.org/en/latest/http_request_lifecycle.ht...
    • pdimitar 6y ago
      Oh believe me, I am aware. I just didn't want to write a program for my task back then (even if it would have likely taken almost the same amount of time as it turned out in the end). That's why I am searching for an alternative to the classic shell scripting and I have almost settled on OCaml. Python is alright as well but never really liked it: just when you might need a tool that's quick to launch, you'll hit the Python interpreter startup overhead. Same goes for many other interpreted languages.