std.net.curl - get() is too slow

[David Nadlinger]

On Friday, 20 December 2013 at 18:23:30 UTC, Benji wrote:
> When I call get() function from std.net.curl,
> I notice it's extremely slow!
> Maybe 50 times slower than in Python..
>
> Is there any better/faster alternative?

How do you benchmark the functions?

David