It's safe to say there's some reasonable replacements already, and there are some smart guys working on better ones. http://www.pauldix.net/2009/01/ruby-http-c

It's safe to say there's some reasonable replacements already, and there are some smart guys working on better ones. http://www.pauldix.net/2009/01/ruby-http-client-library-performance.html http://www.pauldix.net/2009/01/ruby-http-client-library-perf... But, if you didn't know better, yes, Net:HTTP is going to negate the amazing speed of Tokyo *.