i re-wrote it to just loop over the urls and fetch, results below. >> time ruby parallel.rb http://google.com http://google.com: 301 Moved Permanently http://g

i re-wrote it to just loop over the urls and fetch, results below. >> time ruby parallel.rb http://google.com http://google.com: 301 Moved Permanently http://grantland.com http://grantland.com: 200 OK http://espn.go.com http://espn.go.com: 200 OK http://www.cnn.com http://www.cnn.com: 200 OK real 0m0.595s user 0m0.099s sys 0m0.045s ~/code/ruby >> time ruby serial.rb http://www.cnn.com http://www.cnn.com: 200 OK http://espn.go.com http://espn.go.com: 200 OK http://grantland.com http://grantland.com: 200 OK http://google.com http://google.com: 301 Moved Permanently real 0m1.495s user 0m0.116s sys 0m0.053s