How does PycURL compare to requests? — PycURL can handle a large number of multiple concurrent requests. When reusing connections, it can perform more than 2,000 requests per second. pycurl takes about 73 CPU-microseconds to issue a request when reusing a connection requests takes about 526 CPU-microseconds to issue a request when reusing a connection pycurl takes about 165 CPU-microseconds to open a new connection and issue a request (no connection reuse), or ~92 microseconds to open requests takes about 1078 CPU-microseconds to open a new connection and issue a request (no connection reuse), or ~552 microseconds to open